{"id":256,"date":"2004-08-22T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=256"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"camping_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/22\/camping_out\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The troubled relationship&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/camping_while_brown.html\">between desis and camp<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>blockquote dir=&#8221;ltr&#8221; style=&#8221;MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px&#8221;><\/p>\n\n<p>Given the number of desi engineers, you&#8217;d think the Trekkie quotient would be through the roof, but desis have never been strong with knowing campiness. Irony is the forte of post-materialist, post-sexual revolution societies&#8230; <em>Unintentionally<\/em> camp, now, that&#8217;s different: guys with bad haircuts and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/guide\/articles\/g\/goodnessgracious_66601650.shtml\">thick plastic civil service specs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=rishi%20kapoor=\"\">aging, tubby icons<\/a> romancing young lovelies; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000188.html\">Indian Superman<\/a>. The legion of desi camp could overrun a&nbsp;big tent party&nbsp;and still leave badly-shirted henchmen mewling at the gates.<\/p><\/blockquote><p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/camping_while_brown.html\">More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled relationship&nbsp;between desis and camp: &lt; blockquote dir=&#8221;ltr&#8221; style=&#8221;MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px&#8221;> Given the number of desi engineers, you&#8217;d think the Trekkie quotient would be through the roof, but desis have never been strong with knowing campiness. Irony is the forte &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/22\/camping_out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}