{"id":6093,"date":"2011-07-04T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2011-07-04T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:19:34","slug":"sexy-sadie-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/sexy-sadie-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexy Sadie (Remix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sai-Baba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sai-Baba-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sai Baba\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6101\" \/><\/a>I am shocked, <em>shocked<\/em> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/india\/8612771\/Indian-gurus-hoarded-riches-raise-doubts-over-charitable-works.html\">this<\/a> has happened: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of followers around the world believed the Indian guru Sai Baba was a god, but since his death it has emerged that the fortunes people donated to him were not all invested in good works.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian guru Sai Baba\u2019s life seemed to have it all: sex, money and religion. <\/p>\n<p>A lifetime of claiming to be the incarnation of God had brought him a \u00a35.5 billion fortune and a worldwide following of 50 million people. It also brought accusations that he molested his young acolytes and used cheap trickery to perform his miracles. <\/p>\n<p>Yet all this is now in danger of being eclipsed by the extraordinary saga which has been playing out since his death in April, a story of hidden treasure troves, of mountains of gold and diamonds, of missing millions, all set against a backdrop of a struggle for control of his empire. <\/p>\n<p>In his prime, the diminutive holy man with the bright orange robes and huge afro haircut could count kings and presidents among his friends, and the likes of Sarah Ferguson among the admirers of his home-spun, \u201clove all, serve all\u201d philosophy. <\/p>\n<p>The film actress Goldie Hawn has visited his religious centre or ashram at least three times and donated tens of thousands of dollars to his projects; the Duchess of York paid a call after her marriage broke up; while the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who gave \u00a340,000 for a statue of the guru, and a myriad of Indian politicians and Bollywood stars claimed inspiration from his message of putting service above self. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am shocked, shocked that this has happened: Thousands of followers around the world believed the Indian guru Sai Baba was a god, but since his death it has emerged that the fortunes people donated to him were not all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/sexy-sadie-remix\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[496,495,811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}