{"id":6747,"date":"2006-12-16T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2006\/6747\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T05:34:11","slug":"20-minutes-for-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2006\/6747\/","title":{"rendered":"20 minutes for a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for darshan  on Wednesday and Amma looked at me and said,<br \/>&#8216;You really look like a boy from Pune. you have the same face, lips and all the features are similar.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I looked around at all my brother brahmacharis standing near Amma. All were perplexed trying to figure out who was this boy she was talking about? <\/p>\n<p>Only after 20 minutes I realized who he was.  It was me!<br \/>I had just cut my long hair the other day and  it has drastically changed my appearance.  Apparently Amma was joking about me.  It took me a while to realize it.   Then I thought that if  a joke from Amma takes me 20 minutes to understand, how long would it take to realize the truth from Amma?<br \/>13 Dec 2006<br \/>Nirmal, Pune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for darshan on Wednesday and Amma looked at me and said,&#8216;You really look like a boy from Pune. you have the same face, lips and all the features are similar.&#8217; I looked around at all my brother brahmacharis standing near Amma. All were perplexed trying to figure out who was this boy she [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary"],"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\/6747","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=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}