{"id":100684,"date":"2022-07-20T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100684"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:56:47","slug":"homeless-man-becomes-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100684","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man becomes rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/easy-to-other-planets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/easy-to-other-planets.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/easy-to-other-planets-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\">While distributing books in a parking lot in Dallas, I approached a couple of men at their truck and offered them an \u201cEasy Journey to Other Planets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book explains that there is life on other planets, and many of those planets are a lot better than this one,\u201d I said. \u201cWe\u2019re destroying this one. We just ask for a donation for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said, \u201cWe just gave the little cash we had to the guy there with the bike that has a dog in his front basket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was this man with his dog that had sun glasses and a big sun hat. He\u2019s homeless, and this is how he makes money: people take pictures of him with his unusually dressed dog. The homeless man was there, too, listening to us.<\/p>\n<p>So I told the men, \u201cOK, no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two minutes later the man with the dog in his basket rides up to me with two dollars in his hand, saying, \u201cWhat you said back there to those two guys sounded interesting. I\u2019ll take one of those books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The homeless man became rich.<\/p>\n<p>Your servant,<br \/>\n    Vijaya Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/easy-to-other-planets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/easy-to-other-planets.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/easy-to-other-planets-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\">While distributing books in a parking lot in Dallas, I approached a couple of men at their truck and offered them an \u201cEasy Journey to Other Planets.\u201d \u201cThis book explains that there is life on other planets, and many of those planets are a lot better than this one,\u201d I said. \u201cWe\u2019re destroying this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100685,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684\/revisions\/100685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}