{"id":10645,"date":"2011-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/18\/amma-hugging-hundreds-in-london\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:00:00","slug":"amma-hugging-hundreds-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/18\/amma-hugging-hundreds-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Amma Hugging Hundreds in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/881872-hugging-saint-to-embrace-hundreds-at-londons-alexandra-palace\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, UK, November 17, 2011 (metro.co.uk): Amma, the HIndu saint, spreads her arms to embrace all colors, faiths and creeds. For 30 years, the spiritual leader, real name Mata Amritanandamayi, has been offering strangers darshan &#8211; her unique brand of spiritual embrace &#8211; and is said to have doled out more than 30million hugs worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a universal message of love that is the one thing that we are all drawn to in Amma,&#8217; said Joolz Lewis, of Alexandra Palace in London. &#8220;Her hugs are unconditional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amma said to the Telegraph reporter, &#8216;I see everyone as an extension of myself. When the left hand is in pain, the right hand caresses it. I see everyone as my own self.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Amma is visiting Alexandra Palace for the 24th year and will spend from 10.30am until 3am on hug patrol. The &#8216;Hugging Saint&#8217; promises to meet every person that queues.<\/p>\n<p>For a BBC video on Amma, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-15769467\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LONDON, UK, November 17, 2011 (metro.co.uk): Amma, the HIndu saint, spreads her arms to embrace all colors, faiths and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}