{"id":412,"date":"2005-05-17T00:23:50","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T05:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/05\/17\/412\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T05:23:50","slug":"412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/05\/17\/412\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/nfd\/2003\/08\/08\/1\" title=\"&quot;It has pink flowers on it, and one squeaky training wheel that likes to make you turn right.&quot;\">talking on the phone to Sumana<\/a> before, but now you can experience it vicariously yourself:  her <a href=\"http:\/\/saucymag.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/an_interview_wi.php\" title=\"&quot;There's reinterpretation that bastardizes things, like jalapeno-cheddar bagels...&quot;\">interview with Diana Abu-Jaber<\/a> resembles my own conversations with her.  Ms. Abu-Jaber is much quicker on her feet than I, of course&#8211;even the moment when she belatedly realizes that she and Sumana have met before is graceful.  (Oh, spoilers!)<\/p>\n<p>I would have said &#8220;priceless&#8221; for &#8220;graceful&#8221; there, but Mastercard has ruined that word forever.  I wish they&#8217;d make that campaign die, but this is unlikely as long as I keep pouring money into them.<\/p>\n<p>Sumana also has a brand-new permalink to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/bayarealiving\/mcmasala\" title=\"Not about a rapper.\">her column, MC Masala<\/a>.  It is an excellent column!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about talking on the phone to Sumana before, but now you can experience it vicariously yourself: her interview with Diana Abu-Jaber resembles my own conversations with her. Ms. Abu-Jaber is much quicker on her feet than I, of course&#8211;even the moment when she belatedly realizes that she and Sumana have met before is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-plugs","category-sumana-harihareswara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}