{"id":2203,"date":"2009-09-26T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2009-09-28T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:43:20","slug":"vishnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/2203\/","title":{"rendered":"Amma changed my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/vishnu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2204\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"vishnu\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/vishnu.jpg\" alt=\"vishnu\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Vishnu, a slim, smart and active kid and an 8th grader from Kalpetta is one among the many talented students on whom fate has been really harsh.<\/p>\n<p>A heart-attack separated his father, the only earning member in the family, from him. His father was tailor and earned a meager amount in which his studies and all the household necessities were fulfilled. After the demise of his father, his mom took up a job as a laborer in some factory making medicines. Still with the amount his mum earned, his studies and his elder sister&#8217;s marriage was not an easy responsibility to handle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only because of the scholarship I got that I am studying in 8th grade now&#8221;, says Vishnu. He thinks he&#8217;s really lucky to be studying now.<\/p>\n<p>Vishnu is also a very good football player. &#8220;Manchester United is my favorite. They play really well,&#8221; says Vishnu with lot of excitement in his tone.<\/p>\n<p>Vishnu believes that it&#8217;s only because of Amma and her blessings that he his life has changed drastically. He says that he can&#8217;t imagine what he would have been doing now if it wasn&#8217;t for Vidyamritham.<\/p>\n<p>Sivaprasad.R.Nair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vishnu, a slim, smart and active kid and an 8th grader from Kalpetta is one among the many talented students on whom fate has been really harsh. A heart-attack separated his father, the only earning member in the family, from him. His father was tailor and earned a meager amount in which his studies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[283,281],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-birthday2009","tag-vidyamritam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}