{"id":5232,"date":"2008-06-05T20:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T01:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5232"},"modified":"2008-06-05T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T23:17:06","slug":"shes_a_female_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/shes_a_female_w\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;She&#8217;s a female wizard&#8230; She&#8217;s also <i>extremely<\/i> sexually arousing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Sir Salman appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/index.jhtml\">The Colbert Report<\/a> to discuss his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enchantress-Florence-Novel-Salman-Rushdie\/dp\/0375504338\">The Enchantress of Florence<\/a> and his bit-part in the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0455805\/\">And Then She Found Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Given the fact that the book seems written in a post-Padma haze of vituperation, the following exchange was particularly funny:<\/p>\n\n<p>Colbert: &#8220;I bet the women just fall at your feet.&#8221;<br>\nRushdie: &#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t bet against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rushdie on the &#8220;lotions and potions&#8221; women use, why the fatwa made him feel like Tippi Hedren, why video games and YouTube will change the world (&#8220;when people see what garbage everyone else is consuming, they want it too&#8221;) and why playing Helen Hunt&#8217;s gynecologist appealed to him:<br><br><\/p>\n\n<p><center><embed FlashVars='videoId=171571' src='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Previous SM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?IncludeBlogs=2&#038;q=rushdie&#038;btnG=Search&#038;domains=sepiamutiny.com&#038;sitesearch=sepiamutiny.com\">Rushdie coverage<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Sir Salman appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his new book The Enchantress of Florence and his bit-part in the movie And Then She Found Me. Given the fact that the book seems written in a post-Padma &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/shes_a_female_w\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}