{"id":6034,"date":"2007-02-12T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2007-02-12T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T04:22:00","slug":"henry-david-thoreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6034","title":{"rendered":"Henry David Thoreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_65HA53jcYIU\/Rc_r1Cuw3aI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/fz1ELsL1HYg\/s1600-h\/Henry_David_Thoreau.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030498605294738850\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_65HA53jcYIU\/Rc_r1Cuw3aI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/fz1ELsL1HYg\/s320\/Henry_David_Thoreau.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>&#8221; In the early hours of the morning, I bathe in my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Geetha, before which the modern world appears puny &#038; trivial.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Thoreau can be said to be Gandhi&#8217;s Guru. It was Thoreau&#8217;s book &#8221; The Civil Disobedience &#8221; which gave Gandhi the inspiration to launch the Non-violent Movement. It is said that Gandhi brought back from America what was fundamentally the philosophy of India, after it was baked in the mind of Thoreu !<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>His masterpiece &#8216; The Walden&#8221; has 18 chapters, modelled after the 18 chapters of the Geetha and the 18 parvas of the Mahabharatha.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>He was truly the American Sage. Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau are the Trinity of American Transcendentalism !<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>His famous quote &#8221; When the law of the land is against the Law of Conscience, the best place for a man is jail &#8221; !<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; In the early hours of the morning, I bathe in my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Geetha, before which the modern world appears puny &#038; trivial.&#8221; Thoreau can be said to be Gandhi&#8217;s Guru. It was Thoreau&#8217;s book &#8221; The Civil Disobedience &#8221; which gave Gandhi the inspiration to launch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Henry David Thoreau&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}