{"id":8326,"date":"2012-01-27T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2012-02-03T22:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T03:00:35","slug":"joe-biden-imitates-indian-accent-during-nh-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/joe-biden-imitates-indian-accent-during-nh-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden imitates Indian accent during NH speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden (who I like to think of as America&#8217;s wacky, slightly off-color Uncle Joe) <a title=\"Biden Uses Indian accent in New Hampshire Speech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zekejmiller\/biden-uses-indian-accent-in-new-hampshire-speech\" target=\"_blank\">briefly imitated an Indian accent<\/a> while giving a speech in New Hampshire on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n<p>As longtime readers know, this isn&#8217;t the first time Biden&#8217;s gotten into hot water with the desi community. <a title=\"Joe...Doh!\" href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/joedoh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Back in 2006<\/a>, the then-Senator noted that &#8220;<span>You cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the video of yesterday&#8217;s speech below. The imitation begins at 00:09 and ends rather abruptly. As one Buzzfeed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zekejmiller\/biden-uses-indian-accent-in-new-hampshire-speech?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150495598726286_20385126_10150496560606286#ff1b86b2bc7056\" target=\"_blank\">commenter noted<\/a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s like halfway through the impression he thought, &#8220;Oh sh&#8211;, better not follow through with this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Biden Employs Indian Accent During NH Speech\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gzuGFyMM5h8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden (who I like to think of as America&#8217;s wacky, slightly off-color Uncle Joe) briefly imitated an Indian accent while giving a speech in New Hampshire on Thursday. As longtime readers know, this isn&#8217;t the first time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/joe-biden-imitates-indian-accent-during-nh-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326"}],"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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}