{"id":416,"date":"2007-07-31T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/416\/east-coast-ashram\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:34:57","slug":"east-coast-ashram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/416\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast Ashram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">The last day of the retreat  in Toronto I was called up to join Ken and Dayamitra swami who were  talking with Amma about the land in Purcellville that was offered .  She asked about water, soil quality, septic, and zoning. I answered  each question briefly (no problems with any of those). Then She apparently  gave approval to use the land saying to start with  a house on it first. That night in darshan, after giving me a hug that  left me somewhat dopey, She said something. Dayamitra translated:\u2019  She says you can build an ashram\u2019 . Still dopey I mumbled something.  She said in English: \u2018Is it OK?\u2019. I mumbled something else like  thank you as she pulled me in for a kiss. This will mean a lot of planning  and work by all, but it looks like we will have an East Coast ashram  in Washington<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">In addition to those acts of  grace, she has also given me personal grace in other areas. To say that  the tour has been wonderful is an understatement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shambugh<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of the retreat in Toronto I was called up to join Ken and Dayamitra swami who were talking with Amma about the land in Purcellville that was offered . She asked about water, soil quality, septic, and zoning. I answered each question briefly (no problems with any of those). Then She apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-with-amma"],"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\/416","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}