{"id":252,"date":"2008-12-20T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-12-20T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T12:40:17","slug":"prayers-and-pogo-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Prayers and Pogo Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashrita.com\/system\/files\/images\/blog\/images\/Swissball.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashrita talks about his Guiness Record breaking journey and what helps him break over 221 records &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;.After breaking the ice by jumping on a pogo stick while jumping rope, Furman discussed how he transformed from the nerd to one of the most versatile athletes today.<\/p>\n<p>The son of a successful attorney growing up in Kew Gardens Hills, Furman came to the realization that there was more to life than having a nice family and a big house. He started studying eastern philosophy and began meditating on his own, but shortly met up with Chinmoy. Their idea of meditating originally clashed. Furman wanted to go into a cave and drink strange teas, while Chinmoy was a strong advocate of physical activity&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=20224391&amp;BRD=2731&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=574901&amp;rfi=6\">Prayers and Pogo Sticks<\/a> <\/strong>at Queens Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>Also new design for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashrita.com\/\">Ashrita.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashrita talks about his Guiness Record breaking journey and what helps him break over 221 records &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;.After breaking the ice by jumping on a pogo stick while jumping rope, Furman discussed how he transformed from the nerd to one of the most versatile athletes today. The son of a successful attorney growing up in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prayers and Pogo Sticks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}