{"id":417,"date":"2007-07-31T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/417\/the-lost-day\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:34:57","slug":"the-lost-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"the lost day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">I am writing this from the  program in Santiago while the talks are going on. While my Spanish is  a lot better than my Malayam, I cannot follow the talks. There was a  huge turnout this morning, especially considering that Thursday morning  was a work day. I left the morning program at 5:00 p.m. in order to  get something to eat, Morning program darshan was still going on, and  there was already a long line for the evening program. Going from summer  to winter is odd, it got dark at 6:00, everyone at the program was wearing  shoes and coats. Even though Amma was working Her weather magic, and  it was a pleasant sunny day, having been very cold and rainy, I felt  marginally dressed and just put on another layer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">Santiago was striking \u2013 a  flat plain with rich soil ringed by snowy mountains, and palm trees  planted along the airport. We went by vineyards and groves of nut trees  on the way to the program, and the haze turned out to be pollution.  Santiago ranks right behind Mexico City and Buenos Aires for pollution.  We were told that all the highways were built in the past 10 years,  now 6 million people and 2 million cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">In spite of a very long line  to pay for the snacks (the only food available at the program), everyone  was very calm and patient. The hall appears to me to be as large as  any in the States, and it is standing room only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">I had a ticket on the non-stop  flight from Toronto to Santiago, but they way oversold the flight, and  10 of us in the Amma group were bumped off the flight. In the airport,  Amma was especially sweet and concerned for us, clearly showing Her  concern for the children that were being left behind by her expressions  and actions. She then gave a wonderful kiss\/darshan to us as she went  to board her flight. We were eventually given tickets for a flight (not  non-stop) the next day, as well as vouchers for a room and meals. I  thought that the airport darshan and seeing Her express such concern  for us easily made up for the lost day<\/span><br \/>\nShambugh<br \/>\n26 July 2007 , Chille<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this from the program in Santiago while the talks are going on. While my Spanish is a lot better than my Malayam, I cannot follow the talks. There was a huge turnout this morning, especially considering that Thursday morning was a work day. I left the morning program at 5:00 p.m. in [&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-417","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\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}