{"id":154,"date":"2013-01-30T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/catherines-turn-at-the-blog-wheel\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T16:39:03","slug":"catherines-turn-at-the-blog-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Catherine’s Turn At The Blog Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi everyone – we are getting acclimatized to the intensity of India. Had my first cup of chai masala this morning – the real thing! – blissful!-<\/p>\n

Weather is gorgeous like a perfect summer day – accommodation lovely – have visited the Ayurveda spa also – scouting out retreat opportunities here which are very promising.<\/p>\n

Going with the flow as our plans change every day – train is sold out so will get a ride to Bangalore probably tomorrow. Traffic is just like the movies with ladies in brilliant saris riding sidesaddle on motorcycles behind the driver sometimes with a small child between them; three wheeled auto rickshaws predominate mixed in with small sized cars; buses and trucks; lots of horn honking all the time – plus getting used to traffic on the left – it’s wild beyond belief.<\/p>\n

People are very warm and friendly but not much English with often hilarious results.<\/p>\n

We are often surrounded by groups of curious school children who want to either take a picture with us or have us take their picture, shake our hands and ask “what is your good name?” Feel like a rock star so my intention to just blend in isn’t really working! (Wally says being a 5′ 10″ tall redhead makes me a bit conspicuous).<\/p>\n

I appreciate my soft life compared to the hard nature of so many here – saw a group of people including little kids breaking up rocks with hammers on the side of the road – skinny people, skinny cats, dogs, goats and cows – I feel very well fed!<\/p>\n

I am taking a yoga class here at 4:00 this afternoon so I’ll let you know how that goes – love to all – Namaste! Cath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone – we are getting acclimatized to the intensity of India. Had my first cup of chai masala this morning – the real thing! – blissful!- Weather is gorgeous like a perfect summer day – accommodation lovely – have visited the Ayurveda spa also – scouting out retreat opportunities here which are very promising. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-south-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-2u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}