{"id":11492,"date":"2018-03-15T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2018-06-01T18:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:07:42","slug":"cultural-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/cultural-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cultural-corner-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11494 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Cultural-corner-2-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was deeply moved the first time I saw a photograph of the small, red sandstone\u00a0<em>Torso<\/em>\u00a0from approximately 3,000 BCE\u00a0(National Museum, New Delhi). It\u2019s just over 3 inches tall, but the gentle life-like quality of the sculpted male torso is so powerful, it succeeded in bridging the 5,000-year gap between us.<\/p>\n<p>The figure is from the ancient Harappan civilization that was centered on the Indus River in what is now Pakistan.\u00a0 Although missing all extremities, the nude torso conveys a sense of beautiful vitality.\u00a0 This is especially seen in the soft, slightly distended stomach, which suggests a prana breathing exercise.\u00a0 Something that we yogis continue to practice to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth and fleshy, perfectly imperfect.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Torso<\/em>\u00a0is irresistibly approachable as it creates a connection to our timeless humanity.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Debbie Wacks<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was deeply moved the first time I saw a photograph of the small, red sandstone\u00a0Torso\u00a0from approximately 3,000 BCE\u00a0(National Museum, New Delhi). It\u2019s just over 3 inches tall, but the gentle life-like quality of the sculpted male torso is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-corner","category-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11505,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions\/11505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}