{"id":2956,"date":"2007-02-21T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2007-02-21T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T10:55:35","slug":"fire-sacrifice-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"Fire Sacrifice &#8211; True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MyfriendJohncopy.jpg'  align=\"left\" alt='' \/><strong>By Merrmade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My friend John has been associating with devotees for over  three decades. I was surprised when He suddenly announced that he has been  putting off his fire sacrifice. For years, I had been hinting and cajoling him  to take initiation.  <\/p>\n<p>I felt that the fruits of my preaching had finally  ripened. I relished the result of the patience that I had practiced over the  long term of coaxing him to become very serious about his spiritual life. I felt  very proud that he, indeed, had taken my suggestion to heart and was even  considering having the fire sacrifice. <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to encourage him to have it  right away &#8211; before he changed his mind &#8211; so I asked him, &#8220;John  why are  you delaying the fire sacrifice.&#8221; He said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be cremated until  the very last second.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/my-fripy.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Merrmade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> I felt that the fruits of my preaching had finally  ripened. I relished the result of the patience that I had practiced over the  long term of coaxing him to become very serious about his spiritual life. I felt  very proud that he, indeed, had taken my suggestion to heart and was even  considering having the fire sacrifice.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}