{"id":4847,"date":"2007-11-07T13:20:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4847"},"modified":"2007-11-07T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T15:43:53","slug":"two_things_i_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/two_things_i_th\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Things I Think We Can All Agree On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1) Padma Lakshmi may not be the sharpest tool in the shed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Padma Lakshmi,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she hoped, might one day be on as many food labels as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paul Newman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153a big hero.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Soon there would be Padma jewelry and fashion, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153like Jennifer Lopez,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, and television and cookware, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153like Martha Stewart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In September, she sealed a major deal with IMG, the sports-and-entertainment marketing giant. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She has a global image and no end of ideas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said John Steele, a senior V.P., \u00e2\u20ac\u0153so we have multiple agreements.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Like,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Padma said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tiger Woods.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d How amazing was it that she, the daughter of a single mother who fled India to escape the stigma of divorce, was poised to become the first Indian woman with an American brand\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps the first to self-brand. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as American as anyone else,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she has said. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2007\/12\/lakshmi200712\">link<\/a>)<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Ah yes, comparing yourself to Martha Stewart, Jennifer Lopez, and Tiger Woods in a single paragraph. Why not also go for P Diddy, to round out your own private Macy&#8217;s commercial of utter delusion? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2007\/12\/lakshmi200712?printable=true&#038;currentPage=all\">Read on<\/a> for more wince-worthy quotes&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>2) But she knows how to work the hair:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2007\/12\/lakshmi_slideshow200712?slide=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"padma-lakshmi-vanity-fair.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/padma-lakshmi-vanity-fair.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"481\" hspace=10 vspace=10 align=center \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>(Thanks for the tip, KXB. I know you read Vanity Fair for the articles, too.)<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Padma Lakshmi may not be the sharpest tool in the shed: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Padma Lakshmi,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she hoped, might one day be on as many food labels as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paul Newman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153a big hero.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Soon there would be Padma jewelry and fashion, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153like Jennifer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/two_things_i_th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}