{"id":5797,"date":"2009-05-29T08:26:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5797"},"modified":"2009-05-29T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T10:29:14","slug":"we_are_the_cham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/we_are_the_cham\/","title":{"rendered":"We are the Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p><\/p>\n\n<div align=left>And by &#8220;we&#8221; I mean nerdy South Asian American kids. One sports writer seems a little bitter that his &#8220;home team&#8221; lost:<\/div>\n\n<div align=left>\n<blockquote>You can&#8217;t really resent 13-year old kids in the same way you resent pro athletes, but wow, the little knowing smirk the eventual champion displayed when she clearly knew just about every word she was handed was tough to take. Hey, when you&#8217;ve got the goods, might as well flaunt it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dcsportsbog\/2009\/05\/kavya_shivashankar_wins.html\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n<p><center> <\/center>\n<center><object height=344 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EZHSpTZWdaU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EZHSpTZWdaU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>\n<center> <\/center><\/p>\n\n<div align=left>I have been following the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tussahvh\" target=_blank>Twitter account of finalist Tussah Heera<\/a> as well.  Sweet kid and it is good to hear the unfiltered perspective from the inside.  The Scripps Bee <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scrippsbee\" target=_blank>Twitter account<\/a> also has lots of great pictures and info.  Walk to and around the office tall today my fellow South Asian Americans.  You&#8217;ve ummmmm (cough cough) earned it.  And a big ups for all the participants.  It was <em>way<\/em> better than the Cavs-Magic game last night.<\/div>\n\n<p><center> <\/center><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by &#8220;we&#8221; I mean nerdy South Asian American kids. One sports writer seems a little bitter that his &#8220;home team&#8221; lost: You can&#8217;t really resent 13-year old kids in the same way you resent pro athletes, but wow, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/we_are_the_cham\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}