{"id":5696,"date":"2014-02-02T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2014-02-02T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T14:56:27","slug":"men-with-mules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2014\/5696\/","title":{"rendered":"Men with mules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who do you call when 10,000 kg of cement show up at your doorstep? Men with mules of course.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5698\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5698\" alt=\"uk-48\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-48.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-48.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-48-450x297.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men do not get off easy either<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5699\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5699\" alt=\"uk-49\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-49.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-49.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-49-450x297.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each mule carries three bags at a time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today we received a full truckload (200 &#8211; 50 kg bags) of cement. This is enough to build less than three houses. It took just five hours for six mules and their five handlers\/loaders to move it all up the mountain to a community storage room in Batwadi Sonar where it will be kept dry and secure. Tomorrow we receive another truck load. Good thing they did not arrive together as planned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5700\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5700\" alt=\"uk-50\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-50.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-50.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/02\/uk-50-450x297.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Br Mukesh (with cap) at the cement store helping to pile up the bags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Br. Mukesh reminded me, &#8220;It is said that a mule remembers with every step the karma that brought it to this birth as a pack animal.&#8221; Gives new meaning to the expression &#8220;Don&#8217;t be an ass!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Scotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who do you call when 10,000 kg of cement show up at your doorstep? Men with mules of course. Today we received a full truckload (200 &#8211; 50 kg bags) of cement. This is enough to build less than three houses. It took just five hours for six mules and their five handlers\/loaders to move [&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":[34],"tags":[571],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-uttarakhand"],"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\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}