{"id":2570,"date":"2002-12-10T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2002-12-10T09:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/and-the-winner-is\/"},"modified":"2002-12-10T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2002-12-10T09:49:03","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200212\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By popular demand (i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/yazadjal.blogspot.com\">50&#37; <\/a> of our readership), we proudly present to you the brainwashed product of global capitalism:<br \/><font size=\"5\">Miss Turkey!<\/font><br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.missworld.org\/pics\/winner5.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Turkey\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/><cite><font size = -1>&#8220;I am very honoured to be Miss World,&#8221; said Azra &#8220;I think it is good for a woman to have this position, and I hope I can make a difference.&#8221;<\/font><\/cite><br \/><b>Update:<\/b> <a HREF=http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110002750>Opinion Journal Best of the Web <\/a> says: (scroll down)<br \/><cite><font size = -1>You better believe it&#8217;s good for a woman to have this position! Back when Miss World was a men&#8217;s-only club, the swimsuit competition was a dreary affair indeed.<\/font><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>And here is another victim of the beauty myth.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/images\/talibnailpolish.jpg\"  width = \"120\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/>This photograph, taken a week after the fall of Kabul to the US forces, is  of an Afghan widow on the streets, begging. <br \/>Notice the nail polish? Nail polish was banned under the Taliban. Wearing it was punishable with amputation of a finger tip. <br \/><strike><b>Oops:<\/b> The  second image doesn&#8217;t show. Click <a HREF=\"http:\/\/frogs_fotos.tripod.com\/nails72.jpg\">here<\/a>  to see it. <\/p>\n<p><\/strike><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By popular demand (i.e., 50&#37; of our readership), we proudly present to you the brainwashed product of global capitalism:Miss Turkey!&#8220;I am very honoured to be Miss World,&#8221; said Azra &#8220;I think it is good for a woman to have this position, and I hope I can make a difference.&#8221;Update: Opinion Journal Best of the Web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}