{"id":3319,"date":"2006-05-01T20:23:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T01:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3319"},"modified":"2006-05-01T18:23:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:23:24","slug":"permanent_blogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/permanent_blogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Bloggers: Amardeep Singh and Siddhartha Mitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been AWOL for the past few days on a big-time mission for Sepia Mutiny. I was tasked by the bunker-mates to try and sign Kaavya Viswanathan to a contract to blog for us here at SM. I even offered her a $500,000 advance and a TWO-month guest slot (as opposed to the standard one month) at our bunker. I know that she has never blogged before and is pretty young, but a team of monkeys in our basement were ready to help in &#8220;packaging&#8221; her stuff so that it would fit the tone and content of our website. Alas, I just couldn&#8217;t close the deal due to some legal issues.<\/p>\n\n<p>There was no way I was going to come back empty handed however. As a back-up we made an offer to both <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lehigh.edu\/~amsp\/blog.html\" target=_blank>Amardeep Singh<\/a> and <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.illhindu.com\/\" target=_blank>Siddhartha Mitter<\/a>. Details of the contract? No advance, no movie deal, no Couric interview. Just disgruntled comment leavers and a shot at fomenting mutiny. They agreed only once we said we&#8217;d throw in a hair and make-up person (and put a star on their door).  Just to be clear, if they end up plagiarizing we had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been AWOL for the past few days on a big-time mission for Sepia Mutiny. I was tasked by the bunker-mates to try and sign Kaavya Viswanathan to a contract to blog for us here at SM. I even offered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/permanent_blogg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"-1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}