{"id":5752,"date":"2009-05-05T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5752"},"modified":"2009-05-05T00:38:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T05:38:51","slug":"wake_up_its_kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/wake_up_its_kin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up, It&#8217;s King Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I received the video below in my inbox along with this message &#8212; &#8220;Canadian desi fronted old school r&amp;b-detroit rock. He&#8217;s like a mix between fela\/prince\/ and someone&#8217;s cool 70&#8217;s desi uncle (not mine unfortunately) sigh&#8230;&#8221; My interest was piqued. I watched. Then decided you should too. \n<center><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DDmxHDx0SBQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DDmxHDx0SBQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Oddly, the video reminds me of some of the yellowed photos of the 1970s from my father&#8217;s photo albums (minus all the haram activities). King Khan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003479.html\">seems like quite the trip<\/a>. He and the Shrines are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kingkhantheshrines\">touring right now<\/a> at a hipster spot near you. Who&#8217;s with me?  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I received the video below in my inbox along with this message &#8212; &#8220;Canadian desi fronted old school r&amp;b-detroit rock. He&#8217;s like a mix between fela\/prince\/ and someone&#8217;s cool 70&#8217;s desi uncle (not mine unfortunately) sigh&#8230;&#8221; My interest was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/wake_up_its_kin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}