{"id":2644,"date":"2016-06-08T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2017-01-05T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:37:31","slug":"3-june-8-2016-construction-work-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/2016\/06\/08\/3-june-8-2016-construction-work-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 &#8212; June 8, 2016 &#8212; Construction Work Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>It is with great joy that I can report that on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 7, work began on the Ishwar\u2019s Meeting Hall project in Bruce, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>This first phase of work includes clearing ground with a bulldozer in preparation for the grading of the building site. In the photo below, a bulldozer operator is clearing an area on the hill that will be used to store the precious topsoil that will be stripped from the building site.<\/p>\n<p>Although some small trees are being removed, all of the large pine trees are to be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning the tree removal, one observer on the hill said this: &#8220;<em>In thinking about the trees &#8211; they came into this life for this purpose. Picture them rejoicing as their life purpose is being fulfilled. They have been the keepers of the hill<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope to be able to provide you with regular updates as work proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>With warmest regards,<br \/>\nPaul Bauer<br \/>\nChair of the ISHA Building &amp; Fund-Raising Committee<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2753 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer.jpg\" alt=\"blog3-bulldozer\" width=\"1020\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer-690x461.jpg 690w, https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BLOG3-bulldozer-930x621.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, It is with great joy that I can report that on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 7, work began on the Ishwar\u2019s Meeting Hall project in Bruce, Wisconsin. This first phase of work includes clearing ground with a bulldozer in preparation for the grading of the building site. In the photo below, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-construction-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}