{"id":3923,"date":"2006-11-02T20:09:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T01:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3923"},"modified":"2006-11-02T20:12:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T01:12:04","slug":"the_office_cele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/the_office_cele\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office Celebrates Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=picture height=87 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/kaling_new.jpg\" width=150 align=left vspace=10 border=0>Who cares if there is no stamp commemorating Diwali when NBC&#8217;s Emmy Award winning comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_Office\/about\/next_on.shtml\">The Office<\/a> has an episode commemorating the Hindu holiday. The episode, written by Mindy Kaling, born Vera Chokalingam, (also author of the Diwali song (<a href=\"http:\/\/niralimagazine.com\/mp3\/Diwali_Song.mp3\">link via nirali<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/niralimagazine.com\/mp3\/Diwali_Song.mp3\">magazine<\/a>)-, the Hindu answer to Adam Sandler&#8217;s Hannukah Song) airs tonight on NBC at 8:30 EST. Tonight&#8217;s episode, simply titled &#8220;Diwali,&#8221; has Michael played by Steve Carell, urging all the staff to support Kelly Kapoor, played by Mindy Kaling, and attend a local celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights. As Ryan (B.J. Novak) nervously faces Kelly&#8217;s family at the event, Michael, his new girlfriend Carol, and the staff sample a range of Indian culture and cuisine. Since the episode hasn&#8217;t aired yet, we can&#8217;t say too much about the content, but the fact that the show is happening is pretty cool. I hope some YouTube links will pop up in the comments after the show airs. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/niralimagazine.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/25\/hai-hai-hai-and-a-bottle-of-lassi\/\">Nirali Magazine&#8217;s blog<\/a> for an exclusive look at the show. <\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who cares if there is no stamp commemorating Diwali when NBC&#8217;s Emmy Award winning comedy The Office has an episode commemorating the Hindu holiday. The episode, written by Mindy Kaling, born Vera Chokalingam, (also author of the Diwali song (link &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/the_office_cele\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}