{"id":1447,"date":"2009-06-13T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T10:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2009-06-13T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T10:38:39","slug":"the-popularity-of-jai-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"The popularity of &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the film &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsS.html#SM\">here<\/a>] and later read the book on which the movie was based [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#SM\">here<\/a>]. The music for the film was excellent and I was bought the CD by my wife. Especially joyous is the final song &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221;.<br \/>\nNow, three and a half months ago, I blogged on the question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2009\/02\/what_does_jao_ho_mean.html\">&#8220;What does &#8216;Jai Ho&#8217; mean?&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been astonished at how many visits this posting has received and continues to receive after all this time (try Googling &#8216;Jai Ho&#8217; and you&#8217;ll see what I mean). I&#8217;ve been even more amazed by the number of comments submitted on the posting &#8211; almost 60 and still counting.<br \/>\nWe established quickly that &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221; means something like &#8220;Victory to you&#8221; but this hasn&#8217;t stopped people posting (increasingly silly) comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the film &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; [my review here] and later read the book on which the movie was based [my review here]. The music for the film was excellent and I was bought the CD by my wife. Especially joyous is the final song &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221;. Now, three and a half months ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}