{"id":21933,"date":"2015-11-26T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T09:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=21933"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T09:19:36","slug":"alfred-ford-is-building-a-multi-million-dollar-monument-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=21933","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Ford is Building a Multi-Million Dollar Monument in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-uL9xZ0dvxBs\/VlbN8bofzOI\/AAAAAAAAW4c\/0HP_itFgTYE\/s0\/2015-11-26_10-16-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Henry Ford&#8217;s great-grandson was heading for ruin and then had a better idea: spiritual enlightenment. Now, 40 years later, Alfred Ford is spending millions to build a monument in India to the faith that brought him redemption.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-kL-hHzg3b1U\/VlbNCqvfLSI\/AAAAAAAAW4I\/Xp_FOElh7iM\/s0\/2015-11-26_10-12-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Alfred Ford and Michael Glancy tour Europe in 1970.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jay Cheshes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alfred Ford might have been any old corporate road warrior, in his pressed khakis and soft traveling shoes. He had come up from Calcutta, a three-hour drive along dusty roads clogged with mule-drawn carts, arriving in Mayapur, West Bengal, to look in on a big building project rising near a bend in the Ganges River.<\/p>\n<p>In his VIP suite, across from the site, he slipped into a loose-fitting kurta and wraparound dhoti, a strand of beads creeping out from under his Indian shirt. A murmur of song began to rise in the distance. He caught the tune, barely moving his lips. &#8220;Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For 40 years Ford has been repeating the mantra just as his guru instructed, 1,728 times daily, counting off under his breath while fingering beads tucked in a cloth bag around his neck. For all that time, Alfred Brush Ford\u2014Motor City royalty, great-grandson of Henry, heir to a comfortable slice of his family&#8217;s $1.2 billion in Ford Motor stock\u2014has been quietly living a double life. &#8220;I have kind of a split personality,&#8221; he says, &#8220;with one foot in one world and one in another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/society\/money-and-power\/news\/a4350\/alfred-ford-multi-million-dollar-monument-india\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-8qLIQ_eVVmE\/VlbNT4MFZ6I\/AAAAAAAAW4Q\/0kOZUYkznKQ\/s0\/2015-11-26_10-13-50.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Jay Cheshes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Alfred Ford might have been any old corporate road warrior, in his pressed khakis and soft traveling shoes. He had come up from Calcutta, a three-hour drive along dusty roads clogged with mule-drawn carts, arriving in Mayapur, West Bengal, to look in on a big building project rising near a bend in the Ganges River.  In his VIP suite, across from the site, he slipped into a loose-fitting kurta and wraparound dhoti, a strand of beads creeping out from under his Indian shirt. A murmur of song began to rise in the distance. He caught the tune, barely moving his lips. &#8220;Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare.&#8221;  For 40 years Ford has been repeating the mantra just as his guru instructed, 1,728 times daily, counting off under his breath while fingering beads tucked in a cloth bag around his neck.<!--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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933","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=21933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21935,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions\/21935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}