{"id":1125,"date":"2011-08-28T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2011-10-12T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T21:24:11","slug":"sri-chinmoys-80th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 80th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 27th, 2011 was the 80th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1126\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/garland-2-prash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1126 \" title=\"garland-2-prash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/garland-2-prash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/garland-2-prash.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/garland-2-prash-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Councilman and Park Director complete the world&#39;s longest garland in honour of Sri Chinmoy&#39;s 80th birthday. (photo Prashphutita)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To mark the occasion, Ashrita Furman and 170 members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team created a new Guinness World Record for the world&#8217;s largest garland of flowers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1127\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NY-Councilman-and-Park-Director-complete-worlds-longest-garland-photo-Jowan-Gauthier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1127\" title=\"NY-Councilman-and-Park-Director-complete-world's-longest-garland-photo-Jowan-Gauthier\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NY-Councilman-and-Park-Director-complete-worlds-longest-garland-photo-Jowan-Gauthier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NY-Councilman-and-Park-Director-complete-worlds-longest-garland-photo-Jowan-Gauthier.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NY-Councilman-and-Park-Director-complete-worlds-longest-garland-photo-Jowan-Gauthier-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NY-Councilman and Park Director complete the world&#39;s longest garland (photo-Jowan-Gauthier)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using 80,000 carnations, the team created a 2.15 mile garland of flowers around a lake in Flushing Meadows, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Ashrita Furman spoke of the event:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My friends and I have a tradition to express our gratitude to Sri Chinmoy as he inspires us to discover inner peace, joy and strength through meditation. On the occasion of Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday anniversary we wanted to do something special. The huge garland expresses the deep gratitude we feel. There was an great feeling of oneness and harmony because people from 35 countries were connected by the garland in a circle symbolising planet earth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1128\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/making-prash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1128\" title=\"making-prash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/making-prash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/making-prash.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/making-prash-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer helps make the garland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>80,000 carnations were flown in from Columbia to Miami airport and then transported in a refrigerated lorry to New York. The 170 volunteers worked from 6.30am to 13.00 to complete the record garland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1129\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/flowers-prash.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1129 \" title=\"flowers-prash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/flowers-prash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/flowers-prash.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/flowers-prash-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the 2.15 mile Garland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1130\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjaya-ashrita-measure-prash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1130\" title=\"sanjaya-ashrita-measure-prash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjaya-ashrita-measure-prash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjaya-ashrita-measure-prash.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjaya-ashrita-measure-prash-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanjaya Spettigue and Ashrita Furman measure the garland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/world-largest-prash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1132 aligncenter\" title=\"world-largest-prash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/world-largest-prash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/world-largest-prash.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/world-largest-prash-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"jwplayer-2706\"><\/div>\n<p><small>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\">Sri Chinmoy TV<\/a> <\/small>  <\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/jw-player-external\/player\/jwplayer.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  jwplayer(\"jwplayer-2706\").setup({\n    flashplayer: \"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/jw-player-external\/player\/player.swf\",\n    width: \"480\",\n    height: \"360\",\n    controlbar: \"bottom\",\n    \"file\": \"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/worlds-longest-garland-2706\/Sequence-01.mp4\",\n    \"image\": \"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/featured-images\/worlds-longest-garland-2706.jpg\",\n    events: {},\n    skin: \"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/jw-player-external\/skins\/stormtrooper.zip\",\n  }); <\/script><\/p>\n<p>Video by Parimal<br \/>\n<strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashrita.com\/\">Ashrita Furman&#8217;s records<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.org\/\">Sri Chinmoy.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27th, 2011 was the 80th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s birthday. To mark the occasion, Ashrita Furman and 170 members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team created a new Guinness World Record for the world&#8217;s largest garland of flowers. Using 80,000 carnations, the team created a 2.15 mile garland of flowers around a lake in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 80th Birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}