{"id":46141,"date":"2017-05-15T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/160696507961"},"modified":"2017-05-15T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:01:58","slug":"interview-prabhupada-das-1972-philadelphia-30min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=46141","title":{"rendered":"Interview- Prabhupada das- 1972 Philadelphia (30min&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_oq01odj24I1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oq01odj24I1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oq01odj24I1sbj0vuo1_500-187x187.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interview- Prabhupada das- 1972 Philadelphia (30min audio)<br \/>\n\u201cI was a ghetto rat from South Philly. I would harass devotees chanting on the streets. I\u2019d insult them and intimidate them. After four years of this, a devotee approached me. I gave him my usual Junk Yard Dog response and he just blew me off, &#8220;You\u2019re just a little punk.\u201d and then he left. <br \/>\nFor some reason that really affected me. <br \/>\nI didn\u2019t want to be like that. I looked for him for twenty minutes to apologize.<br \/>\nI got to see Srila Prabhupada five times, to eat from his plate\u2026<br \/>\nIt took me forty years to get initiated.\u201c<br \/>\nListen to it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/0jH2aJ\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/0jH2aJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/322711046&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/b0021c3eb31297bb15a40d47ac918b40\/tumblr_oq01odj24I1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Interview- Prabhupada das- 1972 Philadelphia (30min audio)<br \/>\n&ldquo;I was a ghetto rat from South Philly. I would harass devotees chanting on the streets. I&rsquo;d insult them and intimidate them. After four years of this, a devotee approached me. I gave him my usual Junk Yard Dog response and he just blew me off, &#8220;You&rsquo;re just a little punk.&rdquo; and then he left. <br \/>\nFor some reason that really affected me. <br \/>\nI didn&rsquo;t want to be like that. I looked for him for twenty minutes to apologize.<br \/>\nI got to see Srila Prabhupada five times, to eat from his plate&hellip;<br \/>\nIt took me forty years to get initiated.&ldquo;<br \/>\nListen to it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/0jH2aJ\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/0jH2aJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46141","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46143,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46141\/revisions\/46143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}