{"id":846,"date":"2010-08-31T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=846"},"modified":"2010-08-31T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T14:57:33","slug":"most-recited-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Most Recited Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival, August 2010, an international team of individuals helped set a new Guinness World Record for translating a poem by Sri Chinmoy into the most number of languages (146).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-847 aligncenter\" title=\"poem-most-recited-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited-2.jpg\" alt=\"poem\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThose reciting the poem included Olympic legend Carl Lewis, Guinness top record holder Ashrita Furman, UN Ambassadors and Consul Generals as well as people from a wide variety of different countries.<\/p>\n<p>The poem was<\/p>\n<p>Be like a child,<br \/>\nAct like a child.<br \/>\nGo from one flower to another<br \/>\nIn your heart-garden<br \/>\nUntil you find complete joy<br \/>\nAnd perfect satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848 aligncenter\" title=\"poem-most-recited\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited.jpg\" alt=\"poem\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/poem-most-recited-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe poem was from the new book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/books\/the-jewels-of-happiness\/\">Jewels of Happiness<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d written by Sri Chinmoy. The 146 languages ranged from Bengali and Maori to Newari and Zulu, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be Like a Child\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was expressed with some of the most unusual and charming communication sounds in the globe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/category\/ashrita\/\">Ashrita Furman<\/a> has been setting Guinness World Records since 1979 and has broken 299 Guinness World Records on all seven continents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival, August 2010, an international team of individuals helped set a new Guinness World Record for translating a poem by Sri Chinmoy into the most number of languages (146). Those reciting the poem included Olympic legend Carl Lewis, Guinness top record holder Ashrita Furman, UN Ambassadors and Consul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Most Recited Poem&#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":[35,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}