{"id":5917,"date":"2014-04-03T05:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2014-04-03T05:27:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T23:57:48","slug":"things-are-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2014\/5917\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are Heating Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm weather is finally here in Chandrapuri, bringing with it a flurry of activity. The government seems to have realized that monsoon season is quickly approaching. Road construction is going on everywhere, finally with heavy equipment and an influx of new Indian workers. Our construction has picked up again too with the arrival of two experienced supervisors from Kerala, Shiva Das and Ramakrishna. Nine houses have now been bricked to a level above the doors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5918\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"uk-87\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-87.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-87.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-87-450x297.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today was &#8220;all hands on deck&#8221; as we carried pans of sand and gravel to mix the concrete by hand. Once started, we can not stop. The entire form must be filled in one continuous pour for maximum strength.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5920\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"uk-89\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-89.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-89.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-89-450x297.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we learned about lentels. No, not lentil as in dahl. You know the concrete shelf above the windows in most of the ashram flats? That is a lentel and it has a function besides storing unwanted items. It is the band of steel reinforced concrete providing needed strength to brick construction. This is what will give our houses earthquake resistance.<\/p>\n<p>-Scotti<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5921\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"uk-90\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-90.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-90.jpg 500w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2014\/04\/uk-90-450x297.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm weather is finally here in Chandrapuri, bringing with it a flurry of activity. The government seems to have realized that monsoon season is quickly approaching. Road construction is going on everywhere, finally with heavy equipment and an influx of new Indian workers. Our construction has picked up again too with the arrival of two [&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-5917","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\/5917","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=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}