{"id":1125,"date":"2008-02-16T00:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T08:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/02\/16\/flavors-of-life-count-the-laddus\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:39:29","slug":"flavors-of-life-count-the-laddus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/02\/16\/flavors-of-life-count-the-laddus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavors of Life ~ Count the Laddus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Sree\/laddoo.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"Count the Laddus:Painting by Sree\" \/><br \/>\nFlavors of Life ~ Count the Laddus<br \/>\nPainting by <a href=\"http:\/\/sreescanvas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sree<\/a> (Colored Pencils on Paper) <\/center><\/p>\n<p>When I tell someone I just got back from Tirupati, the first thing they *don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t* ask is &#8220;Did you have a good darshan?&#8221; Instead, I hear excited &#8220;Did you bring back any laddus?&#8221; I guess, they can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t be blamed. I&#8217;ve always been among those who &#8216;eye&#8217; the prasaad long before the Puja has begun!<\/p>\n<p>Well, I just got back from Tirupati, after a good darshan, sights of turmeric and sandal  smeared  smooth heads, loaded with laddus to share with eager laddu lovers. May Lord Venkateshwara keep showering everyone with blessings the size of his laddus.:)<\/p>\n<p><strong>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/sreescanvas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sree<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=georgia color=maroon>Previously on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=1086\" target=\"_blank\">Flavors of Life<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=1087\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Sree\/bananavendorthumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Vendor by Sree\" painting in full-size\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=1105\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Sree\/pumpkinblossom1.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin Blossom by Sree\" \/><\/a><!--debd5290446de86a28f047e09d51023f--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavors of Life ~ Count the Laddus Painting by Sree (Colored Pencils on Paper) When I tell someone I just got back from Tirupati, the first thing they *don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t* ask is &#8220;Did you have a good darshan?&#8221; Instead, I hear excited &#8220;Did you bring back any laddus?&#8221; I guess, they can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t be blamed. I&#8217;ve always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sree","category-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}