{"id":210,"date":"2014-03-27T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-01-06T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T16:02:21","slug":"tyler-doesnt-know-scotty-doesnt-know-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2014\/03\/27\/tyler-doesnt-know-scotty-doesnt-know-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Doesn&#8217;t Know (Scotty Doesn&#8217;t Know parody)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon her arrival at the Paradise Alms home, Mala Ramchandin is placed into the care of Nurse Tyler. She does not speak, she does not eat. In fact, the only sounds that emit from Miss Ramchandin are imitations of animals. Eventually, Tyler&#8217;s presence is accepted by Mala and he declares himself as her storyteller.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;&#8230;and for all the scant attention paid my presence, I am the one who ended up knowing the truth, the whole truth every significant\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>insignificant bit of it&#8221;<\/strong> (47).<\/p>\n<p>How can Tyler know the truth without knowing Asha&#8217;s side of the story?<\/p>\n<p>He yearns for Asha,\u00a0\u201cAsha Ramchandin, Asha Ramchandin, Asha Ramchandin. In quiet moments after a long day caring for your sister, when I would rather lie in my bed in the nurses\u2019 quarter and have my mind lie fallow, your name repeats itself mantra-like in my head. At night I fall asleep clinging to the hope that you are happy and well, and you would soon know that it is now safe to return to paradise&#8221; (90). Tyler is well aware that he can never know everything but he has to make his own truth, to believe that Asha is happy and well, in order to make peace with the Ramchandin&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon her arrival at the Paradise Alms home, Mala Ramchandin is placed into the care of Nurse Tyler. She does not speak, she does not eat. In fact, the only sounds that emit from Miss Ramchandin are imitations of animals. Eventually, Tyler&#8217;s presence is accepted by Mala and he declares himself as her storyteller.\u00a0&#8220;&#8230;and for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2014\/03\/27\/tyler-doesnt-know-scotty-doesnt-know-parody\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Doesn&#8217;t Know (Scotty Doesn&#8217;t Know parody)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}