{"id":714,"date":"2008-04-29T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/714\/first-darshan\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T14:08:16","slug":"first-darshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/714\/","title":{"rendered":"first darshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Amma on a CBS special: In God&#8217;s Name.  I was immediately attracted to her presence.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw a PBS special called: Darshan.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote this little poem about my experience of watching her on TV:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>to see a glimpse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to experience a welcoming hug<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to feel accepted and loved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>this is darshan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>this is God<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Kathy Dowell Cartersville, GA, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Amma on a CBS special: In God&#8217;s Name. I was immediately attracted to her presence. Then I saw a PBS special called: Darshan. I wrote this little poem about my experience of watching her on TV: to see a glimpse to experience a welcoming hug to feel accepted and loved this is [&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":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darshan","category-poems"],"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\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}