{"id":5545,"date":"2008-12-05T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5545"},"modified":"2008-12-11T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T11:54:51","slug":"sri_lanka_chica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/05\/sri_lanka_chica\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Chica, Soon to be Mom, Gets Grammy Nom."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"m.i.a.<\/center><\/a><\/p>\n\n

It seems a little anti-climactic to say it, but given how long we’ve been arguing<\/s> talking about M.I.A. here, it probably needs to be addressed: M.I.A’s “Paper Planes” has been nominated for “Best Record of the Year.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n

She’s up against Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, on a groundbreaking country music collaboration, and Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida.” So she has no chance of winning (the Grammy’s usually favor established artists and veteran rock stars over rappers, even innovative rappers). Still, chica has come a very long way since she started out a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n

I also wanted to take this opportunity to wish her and her fiancé the best for the child they’re expecting<\/a>. There’s something profoundly humanizing and clarifying about becoming a parent, though it also changes how most people approach their work and career. (Whatever happens, I do hope that M.I.A. will show up on Noggin and do a song for Yo Gabba Gabba! like The Ting Tings recently did<\/a>. Perhaps a child-friendly version of “Galang Galang”?)<\/p>\n\n

Speaking of raising children, and on a somewhat more serious note, it seems worth saying that the story that moved me most this (terrible) past week was the story of the Indian ayah, Sandra Samuel, who risked getting shot by cocaine-snorting, steroids-injecting<\/a>, Islamofascist psychos, to rescue little Moshe Holtzberg at Chabad House in Mumbai:<\/p>\n\n

\"sandra<\/center><\/a><\/p>\n\n

I was pleased to see that the Israeli government has given her a high honor<\/a> for what she did. She deserves it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems a little anti-climactic to say it, but given how long we’ve been arguing talking about M.I.A. here, it probably needs to be addressed: M.I.A’s “Paper Planes” has been nominated for “Best Record of the Year.” She’s up against … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545"}],"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=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}