{"id":691,"date":"2008-04-07T04:19:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/691\/night-queen\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:12:41","slug":"night-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/691\/","title":{"rendered":"night queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7 apr 2008, amritapuri<\/p>\n<p>the queen has appeared near the ashram kitchen in the middle of the night. she was wearing white and spreading an aroma around. slowly people smelled, heard.. came to visit her. she is not one, but two. epiphyllum oxypetalum  is her official name.<\/p>\n<p>yes, two white flowers have bloomed by the ashram kitchen.<br \/>\nthe leaf is hanging down from the sunshade. the flower has come out through the side of a leaf. the green leaves and the white flowers are fresh and clean after the evening rain. i tell you she is simply beautiful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/04\/nishagandhi1.jpg\" alt=\"nishagandhi1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>nishagandhi<\/em>, the queen of the night will bloom only once in a year, just for a night. and will die when the day starts. just alive for around 8 &#8211; 10  hours. but she could give joy to so many people who are awake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/04\/nishagandhi2.jpg\" alt=\"nishagandhi2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">there is a lesson.<\/p>\n<p>?<br \/>\n??<br \/>\n???<\/p>\n<p>how many people we could give joy to in our life span of 80 years?<\/p>\n<p>~ dhyanamrita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 apr 2008, amritapuri the queen has appeared near the ashram kitchen in the middle of the night. she was wearing white and spreading an aroma around. slowly people smelled, heard.. came to visit her. she is not one, but two. epiphyllum oxypetalum is her official name. yes, two white flowers have bloomed by the [&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-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}