{"id":8144,"date":"2010-04-18T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/?p=354"},"modified":"2010-04-18T19:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:16:27","slug":"party-like-a-persian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/18\/party-like-a-persian\/","title":{"rendered":"Party like a Persian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/persian_version.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/persian_version.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"persian_version\" width=\"202\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-355\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/19\/business\/media\/19shore.html?hp\">MTV Not Involved With \u2018Jersey Shore\u2019 Imitations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the show he calls the \u201cPersian Version,\u201d his casting company wrote: \u201cIf you are at least 21 years old, appear younger than 30, and are outrageous, outspoken and a proud Persian-American, then Doron Ofir Casting and 495 Productions, the team who brought you \u2018Jersey Shore,\u2019 are looking for you!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Jersey Shore all the cast members were at least nominal Catholics (though not all were Italian American), so there was a unanimity of religious presuppositions which stood in sharp contrast to the forced pluralism evident in <i>The Real World<\/i> series. This is going to be difficult for Persian Version if they get a representative group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/religion\/only-a-minority-of-iranian-americans-are-muslims\">Iranian Americans<\/a>. Rather, perhaps they can appeal to a common shared value of the need for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2008\/04\/nose-jobs-in-iran\/\">Latoya Jackson face<\/a> (the one <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nowruz\">Nowruz<\/a> I&#8217;ve  attended had a lot of that).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fwp%2Fculture%2Fparty-like-a-persian&amp;linkname=Party%20like%20a%20Persian\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV Not Involved With \u2018Jersey Shore\u2019 Imitations: For the show he calls the \u201cPersian Version,\u201d his casting company wrote: \u201cIf you are at least 21 years old, appear younger than 30, and are outrageous, outspoken and a proud Persian-American, then Doron Ofir Casting and 495 Productions, the team who brought you \u2018Jersey Shore,\u2019 are looking [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-jersey-shore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14020,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/14020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}