{"id":1087,"date":"2008-01-19T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/01\/19\/flavors-of-life-banana-vendor\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:13:11","slug":"flavors-of-life-banana-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/01\/19\/flavors-of-life-banana-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavors of Life ~ Banana Vendor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Sree\/bananavendor.JPG\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"Banana Vendor by Sree of Sree's Canvas\" \/><br \/>\nFlavors of Life ~ Banana Vendor<br \/>\nPainting by <a href=\"http:\/\/sreescanvas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sree<\/a> <small>(Colored Pencils on Paper)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Many like her were selling bananas in front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hampi.in\/virupaksha-temple.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Virupaksha Temple at Hampi<\/a>. The fruits were not offerings to God, but to the large number of cows in front of the temple! I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know whether you would agree; to me the banana is the most humble of all fruits. It&#8217;s available through the year and affordable to all. The banana selflessly offers itself to mankind. We eat both raw and ripe fruit, the stem of the plant and the banana flower. We use the banana leaves for religious offerings and cooking. I recently read somewhere that the nutrients lie in the ripe skin of the fruit. Any takers?:)<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/sreescanvas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8211; Sree<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/01\/19\/flavors-of-life-by-sree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flavors of Life by Sree: Introduction<\/a>)<!--3858cf63c8fd2e473a3426c771cd0471--><!--28ec5550fa8e2cc4293245b5ff0c5ebf--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavors of Life ~ Banana Vendor Painting by Sree (Colored Pencils on Paper) Many like her were selling bananas in front of the Virupaksha Temple at Hampi. The fruits were not offerings to God, but to the large number of cows in front of the temple! I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know whether you would agree; to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,83,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plantain","category-bananas","category-sree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}