{"id":7528,"date":"2009-03-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/05\/ex-beatles-paul-and-ringo-promote-meditation\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T12:00:00","slug":"ex-beatles-paul-and-ringo-promote-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/05\/ex-beatles-paul-and-ringo-promote-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Beatles Paul And Ringo Promote Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW YORK, U.S., March 5, 2009: More than 40 years after they traveled to India to study transcendental meditation, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite for the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The only two surviving Beatles, who rarely appear in public together, will perform at &#8220;Paul McCartney and Friends: Change Begins Within,&#8221; an April 4 benefit at New York&#8217;s Radio City Music Hall. Proceeds will go to the meditation-promoting David Lynch Foundation, with the goal of teaching a million at-risk children to meditate.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney said in a news release he has benefited from practicing meditation over the last four decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles studied transcendental meditation in India in 1968. Their instructor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died last year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service NEW YORK, U.S., March 5, 2009: More than 40 years after they traveled to India to study,&#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-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528","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=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}