{"id":5541,"date":"2008-12-01T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5541"},"modified":"2008-12-01T22:19:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:19:30","slug":"while_rome_was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/while_rome_was\/","title":{"rendered":"While Rome was Burning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Brietbart has <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/01\/six-degrees-of-imran-khan\/\">a fascinating OpEd<\/a> about a film opening the precise moment India&#8217;s 9\/11 was being unleashed &#8211; <\/p>\n\n<blockquote><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/slideshow\/photo\/\/081127\/ids_photos_en\/r4263074922.jpg\/\"><img class=picture height=300 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/imraankhan356-thumb-410x577_1.jpg\" width=213 align=right vspace=10 border=0 ><\/a>On the evening of Nov. 26, the biggest names in Bollywood walked the red carpet at the Bombay premiere of &#8220;The President Is Coming,&#8221; a comedy about six 20-somethings vying to win the right to shake hands with President Bush. \n<p><\/p>\n<p>Among those in attendance at the star-studded premiere Wednesday evening was Bollywood&#8217;s &#8220;new heartthrob&#8221; Imran Khan, who proudly posed for paparazzi donning a T-shirt with Mr. Bush&#8217;s face sandwiched between the words &#8220;International Terrorist.&#8221; \n<p>&#8230;At the precise moment Mr. Khan and hundreds of others making their fortunes in the multibillion-dollar Indian movie business were watching &#8220;The President Is Coming,&#8221; only a few blocks away, 10 20-something Muslim extremists began a horrific three-day terror spree.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>In the ironic, postmodern world, you earn accolades by tarring a disagreeable politician with the epithet &#8220;terrorist.&#8221; By contrast, had Mr. Khan worn a t-shirt critical of Bin Laden &#038; his supporters, and stepped out of his comfy limo at the wrong time just a few blocks away, the word &#8220;terrorist&#8221; would have taken on a considerably more literal meaning.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Brietbart has a fascinating OpEd about a film opening the precise moment India&#8217;s 9\/11 was being unleashed &#8211; On the evening of Nov. 26, the biggest names in Bollywood walked the red carpet at the Bombay premiere of &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/while_rome_was\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541"}],"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=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}