{"id":47,"date":"2010-08-02T02:31:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-08-02T02:35:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T02:35:21","slug":"the-brightest-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The Brightest Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two more days, I will go to Forbesgunge, flying from Chicago to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Kolkata, Kolkata to Baghdogra, then a three hour taxi journey to my final destination, Forbesgunge. \u00a0It is a place where only 20% of the population has electricity; only 16% has indoor plumbing; spiders the size of your hand are common.<\/p>\n<p>I have been asked repeatedly by my good friends and family: \u00a0why THERE?<\/p>\n<p>Here is my response: \u00a0Because the brightest light often comes from the darkest places.<\/p>\n<p>Please watch this video of Apne Aap that explains better the mission of the organization that I am going to assist. \u00a0Really, after you see it, you will not question why I would go &#8211; \u00a0I hope you would question why I would not.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CaqOb9_9kPc&amp;feature=email\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/CaqOb9_9kPc\/default.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CaqOb9_9kPc&amp;feature=email\" target=\"_blank\">Adventure Divas- Ruchira Gupta by Holly Moris<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CaqOb9_9kPc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CaqOb9_9kPc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two more days, I will go to Forbesgunge, flying from Chicago to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Kolkata, Kolkata to Baghdogra, then a three hour taxi journey to my final destination, Forbesgunge. \u00a0It is a place where only 20% of the population has electricity; only 16% has indoor plumbing; spiders the size of your hand are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}