{"id":315,"date":"2003-07-07T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T00:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/07\/push-pull\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T02:03:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T06:03:21","slug":"push-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/07\/push-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"Push-Pull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a203\"><\/a>  Another article (in the <em>NYTimes<\/em>) about Bikram Choudhury&#8217;s <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/06\/fashion\/06YOGA.html\">successful make-over of yoga<\/a> as an American money-making-machine venture.  The <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mondaymag.com\/monday\/editorial\/21_2003\/features.htm\">Monday Magazine<\/a> article I mentioned in <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/03#a136\">an earlier post<\/a> was better than this one, but you get the idea.  My two bits: the word <em>yoga<\/em> is linked to our English word &#8220;yoke.&#8221;  A yoke is never pushed: oxen (or people) pull it, and in that sense, yoga pulls you to another place.  The amazing Mr. Choudhury has succeeded in making yoga pushy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another article (in the NYTimes) about Bikram Choudhury&#8217;s successful make-over of yoga as an American money-making-machine venture. The Monday Magazine article I mentioned in an earlier post was better than this one, but you get the idea. My two bits: the word yoga is linked to our English word &#8220;yoke.&#8221; A yoke is never pushed: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}