{"id":4333,"date":"2007-04-11T22:09:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T03:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4333"},"modified":"2007-04-13T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T11:37:17","slug":"sanjaya_is_my_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/sanjaya_is_my_p\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanjaya is MY Papaya."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XA0BH5eWH0w\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XA0BH5eWH0w\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Last week (or the week before it, perhaps?) when American Idol&#8217;s cameras panned across the audience, I saw a &#8220;fanjaya&#8221; holding a sign which proclaimed: &#8220;Sanjaya is my Papaya&#8221;.  Love it.  It&#8217;s delightfully absurd, innit?<\/p>\n\n<p>Last <em>night<\/em>, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004316.html\">half-brown wonder<\/a> achieved what I thought impossible&#8211; positive reviews from three judges who are now <em>extra<\/em> cautious about everything they say, lest they offend young master Malakar&#8217;s ardent base of 12-year old girls and grandmothers, since doing so would only mobilize a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get_out_the_vote\">GOTV<\/a> effort that the Democrats probably have wet dreams about&#8230;and if they don&#8217;t, they should.<\/p>\n\n<p>My papaya (what&#8217;s hilarious is I HATE PAPAYAS) crooned &#8220;Besame Mucho&#8221; and he did it rather well [Thanks, Murad], though I for one could&#8217;ve done without his attempts at growing facial hair.  But Jennifer Lopez kinda predicted his success, didn&#8217;t she?  She seemed slightly smitten with our kitten. Speaking of, does anyone remember when J. Lo&#8217;s hair and lips were distinctly darker and redder than her extremely bronze skin?  No?  Just me?  Damn.  Anyroad, I&#8217;d love to tell you what happens to the <a href=\"http:\/\/uberdesi.com\/blog\/?p=364\">call centers&#8217; choice<\/a>, but I remember what it was like to live on the left coast and be salty about such things, so I&#8217;ll refrain from dropping spoiler bombs on y&#8217;all. \ud83d\ude09<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (or the week before it, perhaps?) when American Idol&#8217;s cameras panned across the audience, I saw a &#8220;fanjaya&#8221; holding a sign which proclaimed: &#8220;Sanjaya is my Papaya&#8221;. Love it. It&#8217;s delightfully absurd, innit? Last night, our half-brown wonder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/sanjaya_is_my_p\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}