{"id":42853,"date":"2015-09-23T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42853"},"modified":"2015-09-23T19:13:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:13:04","slug":"korla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42853","title":{"rendered":"Korla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/124007617\" target=\"_blank\">Korla<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/appleberry\" target=\"_blank\">Appleberry Pictures<\/a><br \/>\nSan Rafael, California<br \/>\nApril 2005<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/124007617?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Film by John Turner &amp; Eric Christensen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korla_Pandit\" target=\"_blank\">Korla Pandit<\/a> was a spiritual seeker, a television pioneer and the godfather of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exotica\" target=\"_blank\">exotica<\/a> music. Known for his hypnotic gaze, Korla captured the hearts of countless <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> housewives in the 50s with his live television program that featured a blend of popular tunes and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indies\" target=\"_blank\">East Indian<\/a> compositions, theatrically performed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hammond_organ\" target=\"_blank\">Hammond B3 organ<\/a>. In the 90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiki_bar\" target=\"_blank\">tiki<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lounge_music\" target=\"_blank\">lounge music <\/a>aficionados, filling clubs, skating rinks and bars with retro hipsters. Often pegged as a &#8220;man of mystery,&#8221; Korla lived up to that billing when he took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42835\" target=\"_blank\">an amazing secret<\/a> with him to his grave in 1998 &#8211; one that is revealed in <em>Korla<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korla Appleberry Pictures San Rafael, California April 2005 A Film by John Turner &amp; Eric Christensen Korla Pandit was a spiritual seeker, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. Known for his hypnotic gaze, Korla captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives in the 50s with his live television program that featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[21166,21168,21152,21089,21167,21088,1392],"class_list":["post-42853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-appleberry-pictures","tag-eric-christensen","tag-john-redd","tag-john-roland-redd","tag-john-turner","tag-korla-pandit","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42856,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42853\/revisions\/42856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}