{"id":2968,"date":"2017-07-16T22:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2017-07-18T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:01:20","slug":"24-july-16-2017-work-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/2017\/07\/16\/24-july-16-2017-work-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"#24 &#8211; July 16, 2017 &#8211; Work Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dear Friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Work has begun on Ishwar Ji\u2019s tribute to Great Master in Bruce, Wisconsin! &nbsp;As the project proceeds, I\u2019ll be blogging much more often&nbsp;\u2026 perhaps as much as several times per week.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This weekend, sevadars from as far away as California gathered on ISHA Hill to begin work on the Dome Meeting Hall. Young and old, female and male, experienced and inexperienced in construction, they are all united by their love and devotion for their beloved.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The work this weekend consisted of a variety of preliminary tasks that will&nbsp;precede excavating the foundation for the building. Here are photos of a few of the activities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Burning the piles of tree branches from last summers ground clearing:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"A0711DD1-5EDD-4364-A8D5-B5503A74FD39\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Burning-slash.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Building a wooden shed to store supplies:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"47CD7CF9-AAAE-4C51-96A4-B4AD4D159465\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Building-shed.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Clearing dirt and brush from around Master\u2019s Water Well:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"0A94DB8F-C918-4C3C-814D-DFDBD42378FC\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dera-2017-Angus-water-well.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Joyful sevadars:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"4EB82CA2-FB19-4A00-94E2-4EF8EC979120\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dera-2017-Harjit-Happy-sevadars.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With Warmest Regards,<br class=\"\">Paul Bauer<br class=\"\">Chair of ISHA Building &amp; Fund-Raising Committee<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, &nbsp; Work has begun on Ishwar Ji\u2019s tribute to Great Master in Bruce, Wisconsin! &nbsp;As the project proceeds, I\u2019ll be blogging much more often&nbsp;\u2026 perhaps as much as several times per week. &nbsp; This weekend, sevadars from as far away as California gathered on ISHA Hill to begin work on the Dome Meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-construction-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}