{"id":12265,"date":"2017-09-01T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=12265"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:14:36","slug":"video-page-sita-sings-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/video-page-sita-sings-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Page: Sita sings the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sita Sings the Blues <\/em>is an animated retelling of the Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic about the Hindu god Rama and his quest to save his wife Sita from Ravana, the king of Lanka. The Ramayana has been retold through many different media \u2013 live performance, TV, movies \u2013 but this representation is unique in that it focuses on Sita\u2019s thoughts and emotions throughout her captivity.<\/p>\n<p>It is also different because it uses American blues music to express Sita\u2019s love and despair. By amplifying her voice, the film adds complexity to our interpretations of Sita and encourages us to question the ways that feminine characters are generally represented in mythology. The film is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1QkYOqI3jSM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>; take a look for a fresh perspective on an ancient story<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QkYOqI3jSM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sita Sings the Blues is an animated retelling of the Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic about the Hindu god Rama&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1389,13,7],"tags":[1390,242,1395,1397,25,1394,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-12265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-fiction-and-sexuality","9":"category-videopage","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-fiction","12":"tag-films","13":"tag-ramayana","14":"tag-ravana","15":"tag-sexualities","16":"tag-sita","17":"tag-youtube"},"menu_order":895,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}