{"id":1442,"date":"2001-12-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/09\/2001-12-09-george-harrison-made-eastern-spirituality-cool\/"},"modified":"2001-12-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-09T12:00:00","slug":"2001-12-09-george-harrison-made-eastern-spirituality-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/09\/2001-12-09-george-harrison-made-eastern-spirituality-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"George Harrison Made Eastern Spirituality Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/frameset.asp?pageLoc=\/story\/94\/story_9439_1.html&#038;boardID=29546\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, December 9, 2001: This detailed article explores the influence of the Beatles and particularly George Harrison on the American spiritual landscape. &#8220;The evidence can be seen in every health club in America that offers yoga, every athlete who meditates before the game, everyone who shops at a holistic health food store, and every rock star who gives a benefit concert. It was George Harrison and the Beatles who popularized Eastern spirituality and later crafted a different role for the American rock star. He took Indian religious practices from being counter-culture weird to pop-culture cool.&#8221; &#8216;It would not have happened&#8217; without Harrison, says Deepak Chopra, the Indian doctor who himself popularized so many Eastern concepts. &#8216;Overnight they made the world aware of Indian spirituality.&#8217; &#8216;The Beatles opened the door for yoga to be accepted in a worldwide way,&#8217; says Lilias Folan, an internationally known yoga teacher and author.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, December 9, 2001: This detailed article explores the influence of the Beatles 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-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}