{"id":5486,"date":"2008-10-27T22:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T03:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5486"},"modified":"2008-10-27T19:32:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:32:26","slug":"happy_diwali_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/happy_diwali_no\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Diwali! (Now, Explain This Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found the following photo on Flickr, using a search for the “Diwali” tag (most recent):<\/p>\n\n

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The caption on Flickr is “Behold Srivathsan, the Magician of Fire.” If you click on the image and login to Flickr, you can see a larger version of the photo. Is it just your usual fireworks, or is something unuusal going on? What is up with the horizontal streak of light across the frame?<\/p>\n\n

Whatever the case, I think it’s safe to say that this is the kind of thing that is pretty much “only in India.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found the following photo on Flickr, using a search for the “Diwali” tag (most recent): The caption on Flickr is “Behold Srivathsan, the Magician of Fire.” If you click on the image and login to Flickr, you can see … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486"}],"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=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}