{"id":11402,"date":"2013-03-25T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T07:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2013-03-25T08:19:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T07:19:50","slug":"kelly-steve-sokolof-multimillionaires-son-chose-life-of-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"Kelly: Steve Sokolof, multimillionaire&#8217;s son, chose life of humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/342013-03-25-08-1134.jpg\" width=\"300\"  align=\"left\" \/><em>Steve Sokolof (on the left), the son of Omaha multimillionaire Phil Sokolof, strayed from his family&#8217;s path and rejected materialism. He died at 64. Called a \u201clost soul\u201d by his sister, Steve later found purpose in Hare Krishna tenets. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Michael Kelly<\/strong><br \/>\nWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n<p> <center>&#8216;Not exactly a chip off the old block&#8217; <\/center><\/p>\n<p>The son of a multimillionaire Omaha businessman long ago turned his back on materialism and took to the streets.<\/p>\n<p>For four decades, he chanted a daily mantra as a robe-wearing Hare Krishna.<\/p>\n<p>Father and only son endured a long estrangement, though the rift eventually eased.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20130324\/NEWS\/703249866\/1694\">http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20130324\/NEWS\/703249866\/1694<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/342013-03-25-08-1734.jpg\"\/><strong>By Michael Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> At the 2004 funeral of Phil Sokolof, son Steve \u2014 or Siddha Vidya Prabhu \u2014 got up to speak. The congregation at Temple Israel, where Steve had been bar mitzvahed in the Jewish faith at 13, sat in tense anticipation of what he might say&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","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=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}