{"id":3137,"date":"2021-06-25T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2023-10-09T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:02:04","slug":"happy-birthday-mindy-kaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2021\/06\/25\/happy-birthday-mindy-kaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Mindy Kaling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Jason Wieder<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mindy Kaling was born on June 25, 1979. She is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a comedian and actress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While Kaling has acted in several movies and television shows, she is most known for her character in\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Office<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. 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She is\u00a0a comedian and actress. While Kaling has acted in several movies and television shows, she is most known for her character in\u00a0The Office. Along with her role as Kelly Kapoor in the show, she also was a writer, producer, and executive director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}