{"id":633,"date":"2012-04-02T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2012-04-02T04:31:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:31:32","slug":"sari-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Sari Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;m in the land of saris, and a river of the gorgeous garments parades past my seat int the terminal.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen this many sequins and make up outside of Vegas.\u00a0 Big, small, plump, thin, old, young &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter, these sari-bearers pull off this look in a way a drag queen pulls off thigh high, 5 inch platform boots.\u00a0 How do they make it look so effortless and elegant?\u00a0 Draped in soft pastels, or deep saturated gem hues, some hemmed in brocade, others in simple print, and yet others of an iridescent hue reminiscent of a dragonfly wing.\u00a0 There are polka dots, stripes, florals, solids.\u00a0 I am trying to keep from staring &#8211; they just rivet my attention.<\/p>\n<p>Well, boarding now.\u00a0 On to Kolkata.\u00a0 Woo-and-hoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;m in the land of saris, and a river of the gorgeous garments parades past my seat int the terminal.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen this many sequins and make up outside of Vegas.\u00a0 Big, small, plump, thin, old, young &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter, these sari-bearers pull off this look in a way a drag queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}