{"id":6302,"date":"2010-08-22T02:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6302"},"modified":"2010-08-23T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:03:43","slug":"as_many_of_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/as_many_of_you\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview w\/ Ash Kalra at Netroots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, last month I got the chance to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netrootsnation.org\/\">Netroots Nation 2010<\/a>. It was the fifth annual gathering and I was graciously a recipient of one of the scholarships given out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyforamerica.com\/\">Democracy for America<\/a>. It was an amazing conference of about over 2,000 progressives, politicos and internet social media moguls. And of course, bloggers. You can read about my experience on my blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/tazzystar.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/getting-to-nn10-part-1.html\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tazzystar.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/at-nn10-part-2.html\">Part 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>The whole time I was there, I couldn&#8217;t help but play &#8220;desi-spotting.&#8221; At first I felt a little weird about it, but seeing as how I was going on behalf of a South Asian American blog and I was the only blogger I found repping a South Asian space, I considered it &#8220;ethnic-targeted marketing&#8221; after a while. There were about a couple dozen Desis there too. I met some great people and grabbed some amazing stories.<\/p>\n\n<p>With all this talk of elections, I was excited to meet an actual Desi elected while at Netroots Nation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjdistrict2.com\/\">Ash Kalra <\/a>is a council member for the city of San Jose. Check what he has to say.<\/p>\n\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iSnXbYave6E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iSnXbYave6E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>More from #NN10 to come&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, last month I got the chance to attend Netroots Nation 2010. It was the fifth annual gathering and I was graciously a recipient of one of the scholarships given out by Democracy for America. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/as_many_of_you\/\">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":[3,21,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302"}],"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=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}