{"id":7991,"date":"2009-12-22T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7991"},"modified":"2009-12-22T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:22:33","slug":"preacher-a-poem-for-the-christmas-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7991","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; Preacher&#8221;, a poem for the Christmas season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madhavendra Puri dasa   (Paris): Preacher.<\/p>\n<p>In siddhanta vaishnava,<\/p>\n<p>You are Shakti-Avatara:<\/p>\n<p>A soul endowed with the power,<\/p>\n<p>To take the faith, a step further.<\/p>\n<p>His Divine Grace, our master,<\/p>\n<p>In hierarchy, your superior,<\/p>\n<p>With challenges even greater,<\/p>\n<p>Aknowledged you as a preacher.<\/p>\n<p>Though he chastized your followers,<\/p>\n<p>Going astray from your orders,<\/p>\n<p>For you he had great affection,<\/p>\n<p>And true respect, for your mission.<\/p>\n<p>You surely know, that every year,<\/p>\n<p>During the month of december,<\/p>\n<p>Devotees do a marathon,<\/p>\n<p>To increase book distribution!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhavendra Puri dasa (Paris): In siddhanta vaishnava, You are Shakti-Avatara: A soul endowed with the power, To take the faith, a step further.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991","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=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}