{"id":421,"date":"2007-07-31T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/421\/taste-of-chile\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:34:57","slug":"taste-of-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/421\/","title":{"rendered":"taste of Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\"> We got our power back on (lots of people and wheelchairs  were on the cables) with in an hour.  The people are being  very orderly and patient, it was only the initial overwhelming rush  of people that the handlers were not ready for that created a mess.  Amma is moving very quickly. It is amazing to watch Her in high gear,  unlike the leisurely pace in the States. I still sense a heightened  energy and a sense of peace at the same time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">They are just starting dancing  and singing in native costumes, very joyful sounds, colorful costumes  (flat-topped black hats, wool ponchos, boots and spurs with bangles  for the men, white dresses with colorful sashes and trim and petticoats  for the women, color coordinated to the ponchos. The instruments are  guitars and accordions with percussion things (I cannot remember their  names) The dancing is cross between square dancing, Greek dancing with  the handkerchief, and Mexican). The music feels right for the time and  place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">The line for food finally shrank  down to a handful of people, down from what looked like well over 100,  going well into the outdoors. I bought a vegetable empanada and some  pumpkin soup. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">The feeding frenzy at the shops  has slowed down to browsing and casual shoppers \u2013 I bought my second  copy of  the \u2018Mata Rani\u2019 DVD. We played it in the Atlanta airport  and on the plane, so that we had Amma with us even if we were bumped  off of Her flight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">It is nearing 5 a.m., and we  have been hearing local groups for several hours, all different and  all good. The current one has people dancing \u2013 maybe it s just getting  to be that hour, maybe the group has a really strong rhythm that is  easy to dance to.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">I have been trying to bring you a taste of Santiago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shambugh<br \/>\n29 July 2007 , Chile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got our power back on (lots of people and wheelchairs were on the cables) with in an hour. The people are being very orderly and patient, it was only the initial overwhelming rush of people that the handlers were not ready for that created a mess. Amma is moving very quickly. It is amazing [&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-421","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\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}