{"id":334,"date":"2017-08-14T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com?p=334"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:31:12","slug":"remembering-india-70-years-on-from-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Remembering India 70 years on from independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is such a vibrant, warm and beautiful country. Yes it has poverty and problems but show me a country that doesn&#8217;t? What I did notice in most places I visited was the warm and contented spirits of the people. Again I am sure there are those that don&#8217;t fit into that category but I would say a large number do. It really brought some things into focus for me about being content with what I have, which in a world perspective is a huge amount. I love travel for that one fact that it does wake you up to see the good things and what matters and what doesn&#8217;t. Much can be learnt by walking through life with your eyes wide open to the many simple and beautiful pleasures that warm your heart and make you truly happy and I would suggest that is rarely if ever to do with money or things. It also struck me (as it often does) how my country has caused so much heartache in the world over years of power struggles and grasping for wealth. India you are beautiful despite all that and have retained your welcoming spirit which I applaud you for. Happy 70th year of independence and I look forward to visiting again soon x<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-336\" src=\"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8287-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8287-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8287-600x472.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8287-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8287-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is such a vibrant, warm and beautiful country. Yes it has poverty and problems but show me a country that doesn&#8217;t? What I did notice in most places I visited was the warm and contented spirits of the people. Again I am sure there&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/?p=334\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,65],"tags":[87,68,88,89,86],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colour-2","category-india","tag-beauty","tag-colour","tag-contentment","tag-culture","tag-people"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}