{"id":25116,"date":"2018-03-17T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25116"},"modified":"2018-03-17T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:54:03","slug":"karan-johar-was-called-by-this-name-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/karan-johar-was-called-by-this-name-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Karan Johar was called by this name in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Karan Johar said that he used to be called &#8216;pansy&#8217; in school, but a teacher gave him the courage to face the world. &#8220;The word pansy, which is commonly used for a boy who talks and walks like a girl, was used for me,&#8221; Karan said during an upcoming episode of Star Plus&#8217; India&#8217;s Next Superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Karan spoke about it following a contestant&#8217;s performance of an act on a &#8216;pansy&#8217; man who loved dancing, which left him moved, read a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This performance took me back to my childhood days,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to dance on girls&#8217; songs and my friends used to make fun of me. Upset about this, I went to an elocution teacher at the age of 13 and she said, \u2018Why do you want to change the way talk, you&#8217;re just fine&#8217;. That&#8217;s when I gathered courage to face the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today if I was still talking like that I wouldn&#8217;t change it. Even if one of my kids talk or walk like that, I wouldn&#8217;t change them,&#8221; added Karan.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Karan Johar said that he used to be called &#8216;pansy&#8217; in school, but a teacher gave him the courage to face the world. &#8220;The word pansy, which is commonly used for a boy who talks and walks like a girl, was used for me,&#8221; Karan said during an upcoming episode of Star Plus&#8217; India&#8217;s [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25118,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25116\/revisions\/25118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}