{"id":634,"date":"2004-02-18T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/634"},"modified":"2004-02-18T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T16:54:00","slug":"good-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/634","title":{"rendered":"Good Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow Bollywood fanatic, the lovely <lj user=\"malasita\"> will want to hear the news that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.com\/JamMovies\/feb17_turner-ap.html\">read in the Toronto Sun<\/a> today. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true, Tina Turner is going to play an Indian deity in the upcoming Ismail Merchant film &#8216;The Goddess&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Ismail chose me because of my shakti,&#8221; said Turner, who is a Buddhist. (I will tastefully refrain from making any inappropriate &#8220;private dancer&#8221; jokes here, for fear of offending Siva)<\/p>\n<p>My question &#8211; which Goddess is she playing??? Lakshmi (because she is just SO money)? Parvathi as Durga? Parvathi as Kali? I NEED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow Bollywood fanatic, the lovely will want to hear the news that I read in the Toronto Sun today. Yes, it&#8217;s true, Tina Turner is going to play an Indian deity in the upcoming Ismail Merchant film &#8216;The Goddess&#8217;. &#8220;I think Ismail chose me because of my shakti,&#8221; said Turner, who is a Buddhist. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/634\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}