{"id":5442,"date":"2013-09-16T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2015-01-12T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:38:52","slug":"necessity-mother-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2013\/5442\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessity is the mother of invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5443 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 10px\" alt=\"pookalam2\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2013\/09\/pookalam2.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2013\/09\/pookalam2.jpg 309w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2013\/09\/pookalam2-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><br \/>\nWith Amma\u2019s sweet instructions not to be spendthrift, and to use only indigenous flowers , the <em>pookalam<\/em> aspirants now have less but more sensible choices before them.<\/p>\n<p>As a result they have become more creative than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Using the flowers as a whole, without plucking at their petals, the young aspirants \u2013this time both boys and girls-have stumbled upon more innovative creations. A small bright flower sits within the lap of a big flower thus giving a different distinct appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Take a closer look at it yourself!!!!<\/p>\n<p>-Sandhya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Amma\u2019s sweet instructions not to be spendthrift, and to use only indigenous flowers , the pookalam aspirants now have less but more sensible choices before them. As a result they have become more creative than ever. Using the flowers as a whole, without plucking at their petals, the young aspirants \u2013this time both boys [&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":[3,627],"tags":[544],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary","category-festivals","tag-onam"],"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\/5442","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=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}