{"id":1439,"date":"2013-08-08T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2013-08-08T03:12:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T03:12:01","slug":"india-update-august-8-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"India Update August 8,  2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s good to know is that I&#8217;m half a world away and I can still make my little Maya giggle and laugh and wave and get kisses.  What a joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-075741.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-075741.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-075741.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a>A rose-winged parakeet (also called ring-necked parakeet) like the one above (this is a Wiki picture) landed on our window grill.  As I write this, there are 5 females and 2 males on the grill now.  Females differ in that they don&#8217;t have the ringed neck.  I&#8217;d take a picture, but if I approach the window, they&#8217;ll all fly away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080047.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-080047.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a>This is the lunch Anita made for me yesterday.  Rice, dal, green beans with peanuts and chapati.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080425.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080425.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-080425.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a>Indian roadwork.  Watch your step.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080501.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080501.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-080501.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a>Indian construction site &#8211; watch your children &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080536.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080536.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-080536.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080833.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080833.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-080833.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a>This Ganesha (approx 5&#8242; tall) is a typical site &#8211; a shrine outside a fabric shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080958.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130808-080958.jpg\" alt=\"20130808-080958.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a>Local stray.  They&#8217;re all over the place, and many times they wake me up with their barking.<\/p>\n<p>Today I slept in and skipped Prashant&#8217;s 7am class.  Practice at 9, medical class at 4 (with Geetaji) and observe Raya&#8217;s 6pm class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s good to know is that I&#8217;m half a world away and I can still make my little Maya giggle and laugh and wave and get kisses. What a joy. A rose-winged parakeet (also called ring-necked parakeet) like the one above (this is a Wiki picture) landed on our window grill. As I write this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}