{"id":6127,"date":"2010-06-26T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2010-06-26T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T11:25:00","slug":"henry-david-thoreau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6127","title":{"rendered":"Henry David Thoreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JhP7PKoRmmY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<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 &amp; trivial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 !<\/p>\n<p>His masterpiece &#8216; The Walden&#8221; has 18 chapters, modelled after the 18 chapters of the Geetha and the 18 parvas of the Mahabharatha.<\/p>\n<p>>He was truly the American Sage. Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau are the Trinity of American Transcendentalism !<\/p>\n<p>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; !<\/p>\n<p><!-- Begin: AdBrite --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\"><!--<br \/>--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbrite.com\/mb\/commerce\/purchase_form.php?opid=786432&amp;afsid=1\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-color:#CCCCCC;border:none;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/files.adbrite.com\/mb\/images\/adbrite-your-ad-here-banner.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Your Ad Here\" width=\"11\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><!-- End: AdBrite --><\/p>\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 &amp; 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=6127\" 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-6127","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\/6127","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=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}