{"id":66895,"date":"2018-09-26T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=66895"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:02:42","slug":"my-dad-liked-the-hare-krishnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=66895","title":{"rendered":"My dad liked the Hare Krishnas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-qN7OC6fwuJI\/W6uCwo0DpyI\/AAAAAAAAm8o\/5farN0NOyPQBDBTNWwc7yKbQyW-IpHAuQCHMYCw\/s0\/2018-09-26_14-59-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Bhaktimarga Swami<\/strong><br \/>\nThursday, September 20th, 2018<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario<br \/>\nBless Up!<br \/>\n\u201cBless Up!\u201d said the fellow, which I mistook for, \u201cWhat\u2019s Up!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cNot too much,\u201d I replied.<br \/>\n\u201cNo, I said, \u2018Bless Up!\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe can all use some blessings!\u201d I responded.<br \/>\nHe was cool about it, smiled and kept walking.<br \/>\nWhat else about the walk? Oh, yes, there were three of them munching away\u2014three skunks\u2014a family, I suppose. They like bugs in the grass and were calmly going about their business, oblivious to the monk standing very close. They are city wildlife, quite used to us crazy humans.<br \/>\nNow, here\u2019s a story to do with downtown and one of our regulars at the ashram. Cameron is a volunteer at our temple, and he holds a job in construction. Recently, he was working on a building for subsidized occupants. He was underpinning when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, walked in. Cameron was surprised to see him there.<br \/>\n\u201cHello! How are you?\u201d started Justin.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m fine. I&#8217;m Cameron, from Australia.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAustralians and Canadians have a lot in common.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYeah!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is what you do?\u201d Justin asked.<br \/>\n\u201cWell, I hang out with the Hare Krishnas,\u201d said Cameron.<br \/>\n\u201cOh, yes, the Hare Krishnas. My dad (former prime minister, Pierre Trudeau) liked the Hare Krishnas.\u201d<br \/>\nCameron was really happy to hear that. Justin moved on with more friendly inspections.<br \/>\nBless up, Justin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-oAquJCjaF2Y\/W6uC5lTM4JI\/AAAAAAAAm8s\/otP8ii8Or-MDJG1cye7xXSOamgrKvFi9QCHMYCw\/s0\/2018-09-26_15-00-07.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/> \u201cHello! How are you?\u201d started Justin. \u201cI\u2019m fine. I&#8217;m Cameron, from Australia.\u201d \u201cAustralians and Canadians have a lot in common.\u201d \u201cYeah!\u201d \u201cThis is what you do?\u201d Justin asked. \u201cWell, I hang out with the Hare Krishnas,\u201d said Cameron. \u201cOh, yes, the Hare Krishnas. My dad (former prime minister, Pierre Trudeau) liked the Hare Krishnas.\u201d Cameron was really happy to hear that. Justin moved on with more friendly inspections. Bless up, Justin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66895","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\/66895","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=66895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66898,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66895\/revisions\/66898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}