{"id":342,"date":"2004-09-03T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=342"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"its_not_the_col","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/03\/its_not_the_col\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not the color of your money, it&#8217;s what&#8217;s in your pants that counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3621898.stm\">Beeb<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nAngry eunuchs in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are protesting against a state-run insurance company which they allege has refused to issue an insurance policy to a eunuch. <br>\n\n[snip]<br>\n\nA spokesman for the Life Insurance Corporation at their headquarters in Bombay (Mumbai) has denied that eunuchs will not be sold insurance. <br>\n\nBut a senior official who requested anonymity told the BBC that, according to the company rules, only men or women can apply for insurance. <br>\n\nHe said that, going strictly by the rules, applications from eunuchs are normally rejected. \n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I can just picture some desi bureaucrat looking at the boxes labeled &#8220;M\/F Check ONE&#8221; and stamping denied across the form. Somebody please smack said bureaucrat silly, then send him to Bombay Dreams for re-education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Beeb: Angry eunuchs in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are protesting against a state-run insurance company which they allege has refused to issue an insurance policy to a eunuch. [snip] A spokesman for the Life Insurance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/03\/its_not_the_col\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}