{"id":296668,"date":"2010-02-08T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21797"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:28:32","slug":"an-unwilling-messiah-for-the-new-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/296668","title":{"rendered":"An Unwilling Messiah for the New Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/200px-Raj_Patel-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Raj Patel\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21798\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating story about the man who would <em>not<\/em> be messiah, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/05\/us\/05sfmetro.html\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Raj Patel\u2019s desk sits in a dusty, cement-floored nook in his garage, just beyond a parked gray Prius, near the washer and dryer. They are humble surroundings for a god.<\/p>\n<p>Followers of Share International, a New Age religious sect, claim Raj Patel is the messiah Maitreya. He denies the claim, but he cannot persuade them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absurd to be put in this position, when I\u2019m just some bloke,\u201d Mr. Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed the messiah Maitreya by followers of the New Age religious sect Share International.<\/p>\n<p>He was raised as a Hindu and had never heard of the group.&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating story about the man who would not be messiah, in the New York Times: Raj Patel\u2019s desk sits in a dusty, cement-floored nook in his garage, just beyond a parked gray Prius, near the washer and dryer. They are humble surroundings for a god. Followers of Share International, a New Age religious sect, claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}