{"id":288,"date":"2004-08-27T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T18:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=288"},"modified":"2006-03-18T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T00:22:37","slug":"bismullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/bismullah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bis-mullah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering rock queen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/god_save_queen.html\">Freddie Mercury<\/a>, a.k.a. Farokh Bulsara, has posthumously penetrated the Persian market (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tripathi.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/hes-just-poor-boy-from-poor-family.html\">our very own Abhi<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>[T]he Ministry [of Islamic Guidance] liked the song Bohemian Rhapsody&#8230; about a man who commits murder and sells his soul to the devil. On the night before his execution he prays to Allah for redemption&#8230; I will forever think of Wayne&#8217;s World. I imagined a bunch of Islamic clerics in the back seat of a car, banging their heads to this song.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The UK voted &#8216;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/god_save_queen.html\">the best song of all time<\/a>, beating out the Beatles&#8217; &#8216;Imagine.&#8217; And in the back seat of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amcpacer.com\/\">Pacer<\/a>, in the black turban, jamming on air drums, we have ayatollah Ali. Please give him a warm hand on his opening&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering rock queen Freddie Mercury, a.k.a. Farokh Bulsara, has posthumously penetrated the Persian market (via our very own Abhi): [T]he Ministry [of Islamic Guidance] liked the song Bohemian Rhapsody&#8230; about a man who commits murder and sells his soul to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/bismullah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"-1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}