{"id":4310,"date":"2012-05-25T19:21:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2012-05-25T19:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T01:21:28","slug":"the-purity-the-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"The Purity, the Honesty . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian filmmaker decides to reinvent himself as a guru in America. It looks as though unexpected hilarity results.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8Eyjeimdeg4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The only question is, does pretending to be a guru actually transform him into some sort of guru? &#8220;I fake so much, I forget who I was before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not available on Netflix yet, but I have it on my wish list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian filmmaker decides to reinvent himself as a guru in America. It looks as though unexpected hilarity results. The only question is, does pretending to be a guru actually transform him into some sort of guru? &#8220;I fake so much, I forget who I was before.&#8221; Not available on Netflix yet, but I have it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,128,179],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-hinduism","tag-new-age"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-17w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":789,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=789","url_meta":{"origin":4310,"position":0},"title":"Robert Anton Wilson&#8217;s passing","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Pitzl-Waters posts today about the death of Robert Anton Wilson. Follow his links.I spent some time today looking through some files for an article by him that ran in the old Llewellyn Publications magazine Gnostica, but I could not find it. It was an account of a mystical experience\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1306,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1306","url_meta":{"origin":4310,"position":1},"title":"Who is Your Ancient Philosopher?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I took the quiz and came up with Epicurus, who is truly \"the most misunderstood philosopher of antiquity.\"\u00a0\u00a0 Watch a short video about him.Take the My Philosophy Guru test yourself!","rel":"","context":"In \"philosophy\"","block_context":{"text":"philosophy","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=philosophy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1123,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1123","url_meta":{"origin":4310,"position":2},"title":"Thorn and Pagan Magazine Publishing","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I like magazines. I have worked for three, owned one (still going), and sold freelance articles to a bunch of others. I taught university classes in magazine-writing and production.So when Vol. 1, No. 1 of Thorn, subtitled Paganism in the Silicon Age, hit my mailbox, I was eager to read\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}