{"id":38253,"date":"2014-09-19T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=38253"},"modified":"2022-04-10T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T16:37:33","slug":"mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Mild mannered kirtanee or Paul Bunyan on my roof?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38255\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paul-bunyan-and-babe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38255\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38255\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paul-bunyan-and-babe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Bunyan and Babe, his blue ox<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_38257\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Shiva-Nandi-Golden-Foil-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38257\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38257\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Shiva-Nandi-Golden-Foil-Poster-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Shiva and his steed, Nandi the bull\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiva and his steed, Nandi the bull<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is that Paul Bunyan on my roof, pulling down entire trees that have begun growing up there?\u00a0 No, it&#8217;s a mild mannered kirtan bass player in his alter ego role as Mr. Muscles (and he&#8217;s got &#8217;em)!\u00a0 He spent the morning pulling up the 6 foot tall Brazilian Pepper Tree and 4 foot tall Lantana bush that had begun growing atop the aluminum metal roof of the back porch.\u00a0 The mats of roots and leaf mulch was so thick that I didn&#8217;t have to plant them.\u00a0 They came down as if in thickly woven welcome mats. I dragged them to the newly bare spot that <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=38186\">the tree cutters <\/a> left open to the view of my neighbor&#8217;s home, so now we&#8217;re once again hidden \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It&#8217;s not every pal who will climb up on the roof in the hot Florida sun and sweep away 4-5 years worth of jungle with a smile on his face and a chant on his lips.\u00a0 Om Gam Ganapataye Namah.\u00a0 Which brings me to: Did you ever notice that you never see Paul Bunyan and Babe at the same time you see Shiva and Nandi?\u00a0 Thoughts that make you go hmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Mild mannered kirtanee or Paul Bunyan on my roof?&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Mild%20mannered%20kirtanee%20or%20Paul%20Bunyan%20on%20my%20roof?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/mild-mannered-kirtanee-or-paul-bunyan-on-my-roof\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that Paul Bunyan on my roof, pulling down entire trees that have begun growing up there?\u00a0 No, it&#8217;s a mild mannered kirtan bass player in his alter ego role as Mr. Muscles (and he&#8217;s got &#8217;em)!\u00a0 He spent the morning pulling up the 6 foot tall Brazilian Pepper Tree and 4 foot tall Lantana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49123,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions\/49123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}