{"id":1777,"date":"2010-01-06T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:31:13","slug":"mick-jagger-in-yellowface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2010\/01\/06\/mick-jagger-in-yellowface\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jagger in yellowface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 1982 program Faerie Tale Theater, Mick Jagger [yes, that Mick Jagger] starred in an episode entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/112370\/shelley-duvalls-faerie-tale-theatre-the-nightingale\">The Nightingale,<\/a> in which he donned fingernail extensions, a fake ponytail, heavy eyeshadow and general yellowface in order to play &quot;the emperor of all Cathay.&quot; Ever since I heard of its existence at least 20 years ago, I&#8217;ve been wanting to see this ep just because the conjunction of Mick Jagger + Faerie Tale Theater seems incongruously silly. After 10 minutes of viewing, I can report that Mick Jagger as the emperor is indeed incongruously silly, and the whole setting comes across as a load of exoticized, racist, pseudo-Chinese, stereotypical shit. My curiosity of over 20 years has been satisfied, and I&#8217;m disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 1982 program Faerie Tale Theater, Mick Jagger [yes, that Mick Jagger] starred in an episode entitled The Nightingale, in which he donned fingernail extensions, a fake ponytail, heavy eyeshadow and general yellowface in order to play &quot;the emperor of all Cathay.&quot; Ever since I heard of its existence at least 20&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2010\/01\/06\/mick-jagger-in-yellowface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mick Jagger in yellowface<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[656],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}