{"id":1151,"date":"2010-01-21T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2010-01-21T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:16:05","slug":"prisoners-have-sentences-reduced-if-they-practice-yoga-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/prisoners-have-sentences-reduced-if-they-practice-yoga-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners have sentences reduced if they practice yoga.  Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are being freed early if they complete yoga courses.\u00a0 For every three months spent practising posture, balance and breathing the inmates can cut their jail time by 15 days. The authorities say the lessons help to improve the prisoners&#8217; self-control and reduce aggression.\u00a0 Some 4,000 inmates across the state are benefiting from the scheme, and many go on to become yoga instructors.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8472762.stm\">India inmates take yoga to reduce their jail sentences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are being freed early if they complete yoga courses.\u00a0 For every three months spent practising posture, balance and breathing the inmates can cut their jail time by 15 days. The authorities say the lessons help to improve the prisoners&#8217; self-control and reduce aggression.\u00a0 Some 4,000 inmates across &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/prisoners-have-sentences-reduced-if-they-practice-yoga-yes\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prisoners have sentences reduced if they practice yoga.  Yes!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-holonics","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-iz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}