{"id":334,"date":"2004-09-02T21:31:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=334"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"those_whacky_da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/those_whacky_da\/","title":{"rendered":"Those whacky, dancing, teenage, Indian nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\nThe four nuns from India, some with a few pimples left over from adolescence and all in black habits and crucifixes, giggled and chatted like American freshmen as they arrived here for college. <br>\n\nThey came from Kerala, a state in southwest India, to attend Assumption College for Sisters at Mallinckrodt Convent as part of an atypical Roman Catholic experiment.  <br>\n\n[snip] <br>\n\nThe students have been encouraged to display their talents at prayer services, in the motherhouse and occasionally at Mass. One of the visiting nuns &#8230; said,\n&#8220;The Nigerians are great singers.&#8221; The Indian nuns, she added with a giggle and peek in their direction, &#8220;really know how to dance.&#8221; \n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/03\/nyregion\/03college.html?ex=1251864000&#038;en=ca0e523f63fd3614&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">NYT<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n<p>Does anybody else think this sounds like a bollywood movie? Or yet another Sister Act movie with Whoopy Goldberg? Sister Act 12, in which Whoopi Goldberg teaches teenage indian nuns how to sing to go with their dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four nuns from India, some with a few pimples left over from adolescence and all in black habits and crucifixes, giggled and chatted like American freshmen as they arrived here for college. They came from Kerala, a state in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/those_whacky_da\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}