{"id":423,"date":"2004-09-23T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=423"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"monkey_mayhem_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/monkey_mayhem_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey mayhem arrested in Patiala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it\u00c2\u2019s unacceptable to kill an animal referenced throughout Hindu mythology, miscreant monkeys in New Delhi and Punjab are sent to a monkey jail and locked away behind monkey bars. Oh darling, <A href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/chitribts\/20040912\/ts_chicagotrib\/doinghardtimeinmonkeyjail\">yeh hai India<\/A>.<\/p>\n\n<p><BLOCKQUOTE>At Baljeet Kaur&#8217;s house, when the monkey demanded food, it was given cut apples and peeled bananas. Kaur, once bitten by a monkey, said she was happy this monkey was gone&#8230;. jailers refer to them by where they were caught: Sanam Monkey or Jalandhar Monkey. &#8220;They are so notorious, why should we give them a name?&#8221; Atalia said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t listen anyway,&#8221; added Surinder Singh, who is in charge of the Motibagh zoo.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n\n<p>Damn those non-Punjabi-speaking monkeys&#8230; How to generate a book title in the South Asian lit category: 1. Come up with a tropical fruit. You\u00c2\u2019re done! It\u00c2\u2019s <EM>The Guava Thief.<\/EM> Call <EM>Granta<\/EM> and B&amp;N and ship that sucker.<\/p>\n\n<p><BLOCKQUOTE>&#8220;He used to eat our guavas,&#8221; said Bhagwanti Devi, a neighbor who was harassed by the monkey&#8230;<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n\n<p>&#8230;A friend of mine once noted that the monkey god Hanuman was clearly modeled on Punjabis, because he\u00c2\u2019s funny, loyal, muscular, hairy, and always spoiling to dish out some whup-ass. And given his vertical leap, he\u00c2\u2019d make a hell of a baller.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/rhesus_pieces.html\">Continue reading \u00c2\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it\u00c2\u2019s unacceptable to kill an animal referenced throughout Hindu mythology, miscreant monkeys in New Delhi and Punjab are sent to a monkey jail and locked away behind monkey bars. Oh darling, yeh hai India. At Baljeet Kaur&#8217;s house, when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/monkey_mayhem_a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/423"}],"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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}