{"id":20160,"date":"2015-10-01T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2015-10-06T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:30:15","slug":"red-and-blue-marble-for-the-tovp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20160","title":{"rendered":"Red and Blue Marble for the TOVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new expedition to purchase the best of best for Srila Prabhupada\u2019s vision has commenced. Sadbhuja Prabhu is traveling from through Europe to see the most unique marbles.<\/p>\n<p>This red marble, named Rouge de Saint-Pons, is found in Southern France, Saint Pons de Thormieres in Marble de France\u2019s mines.<br \/>\nWe can see the marble at it\u2019s block form on picture 1 and 2.<br \/>\nOnce cut and polished, it will have the lively red shade as showed in picture 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>We then have the Bolivian blue marble, stocked in Italy, that will be used in the finishing work on the altars. Picture 5 and 6.<br \/>\nThis is also a very prestigious marble, rare for it\u2019s blue color.<\/p>\n<p>In the last picture we also admire some of Italy fine sculpture designs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-fkoKvlOCAjQ\/Vg02pcRrbmI\/AAAAAAAAUic\/1jTPlauo_mA\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-35-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-BRZu9Pz63Co\/Vg024L3iGeI\/AAAAAAAAUik\/f1QOL1gEDd0\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-36-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-KNCPmkZPXgQ\/Vg02-8ikG9I\/AAAAAAAAUis\/XuWJGIIOoKQ\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-36-56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-1UPP4yh0jDg\/Vg03HUteNVI\/AAAAAAAAUi0\/lOlsB2rnWj8\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-37-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2nCGflku3A0\/Vg03OJgdz3I\/AAAAAAAAUi8\/ZeulY8pgrYs\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-37-56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-jp4NfU52bfI\/Vg03VtdU4vI\/AAAAAAAAUjE\/kMLDXodSYmo\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-38-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-DhulWxj69XA\/Vg03ayq8ZNI\/AAAAAAAAUjM\/2HBp4PgT1v0\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-38-49.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about it here: http:\/\/tovp.org\/news\/research\/only-the-best-marble-for-the-tovp-part-2\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-KovQJfkN19g\/Vg04VV9RcII\/AAAAAAAAUjY\/mUxhxksR6CA\/s0\/2015-10-01_15-42-46.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By the TOVP team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new expedition to purchase the best of best for Srila Prabhupada\u2019s vision has commenced. Sadbhuja Prabhu is traveling through Europe to see the most unique marbles.  This red marble, named Rouge de Saint-Pons, is found in Southern France, Saint Pons de Thormieres in Marble de France\u2019s mines. We then have the Bolivian blue marble, stocked in Italy, that will be used in the finishing work on the altars. See the included photos<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","category-tovp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160","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=20160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20249,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions\/20249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}