{"id":6214,"date":"2015-08-14T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2015-08-14T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:29:55","slug":"siamese-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/?p=6214","title":{"rendered":"Siamese Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Above, Guruji in Padmasana on the\u00a0exterior of the building at RIMYI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This morning I had a nice 2 1\/2 hour practice and tonight we were fortunate to have Geetaji teach the Pranayama class and it was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Below, my crazy roomie ManYee with her anti-aging cream on her nose. Her nose must be aging faster than the rest of her face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4052.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4052.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a really good surprise &#8211; a Siamese banana!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4062.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4062.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the other side. I made the vendor hold it up for me so I could take the picture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4063.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4063.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me, Aubrey (London) &amp; Kathleen (Milwaukee) having fresh lime soda at the Chetak after a walk to the Hand Made clothing store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4068.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4068.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For dinner tonight I made banana (not the Siamese banana), pomegranate and Dahi (yogurt). Note to Natalia &#8211; this yogurt is <em>almost<\/em> as good as yours.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4085.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4085.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Independent Day in India. It marks the anniversary of the day India became independent from Great Britain. There won&#8217;t be any classes at the Institute so my roomies and I are planning a quiet practice and dinner at an upscale South Asian restaurant about a block away from our flat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Blogged from iNdia with LOVE!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above, Guruji in Padmasana on the\u00a0exterior of the building at RIMYI. This morning I had a nice 2 1\/2 hour practice and tonight we were fortunate to have Geetaji teach the Pranayama class and it was wonderful. Below, my crazy roomie ManYee with her anti-aging cream on her nose. Her nose must be aging faster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6216,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4053.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","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=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}