{"id":4560,"date":"2007-07-10T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4560"},"modified":"2007-07-10T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T19:18:17","slug":"cheek_swabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/10\/cheek_swabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheek Swabbing Can Be Fun… Bay Area Mega Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultrabrown posted some picts<\/a> from last weekend’s cheek swab fest in NYC<\/a>. Vinay Chakravarty<\/a> and his wife showed up and, as Manish points out, it’s almost weird how much revelry the event managed to create…<\/p>\n\n

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Additional events are happening all over the country<\/a> to help Vinay, Sameer<\/a> and countless others in the future. <\/p>\n\n

In particular, this weekend, Bay Area volunteers are hosting their MEGA DRIVE<\/a> spanning over a dozen sites. <\/p>\n\n

So here’s a little game to liven things up & help get the word out — snap a pict or 2 of you and your friends getting your cheeks swabbed and\/or holding up your donor cards, send ’em to ME (vinod@vinod.com<\/a>), and, in the spirit of the Desi Dad project<\/a>, we’ll post some of our fav mug shots on SM and Ultrabrown<\/a> <\/strong>alongside these folks – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You never know where 30 seconds of fame on SM’s front page might lead…. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ultrabrown posted some picts from last weekend’s cheek swab fest in NYC. Vinay Chakravarty and his wife showed up and, as Manish points out, it’s almost weird how much revelry the event managed to create… Additional events are happening all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}