{"id":354,"date":"2007-06-13T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/1181751512264.html"},"modified":"2007-06-13T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T16:18:32","slug":"blogentry-the-dalai-lamas-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] The Dalai Lama&#039;s &#034;Rider&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#034;rider&#034; is a document often associated with musicians that dictates what sort of amenities they demand backstage.  Some classics include things like &#034;a big bowl of M&#038;Ms with no yellow ones&#034;.<\/p>\n<p\/><a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,21900539-2,00.html&#034;>The Dalai Lama&#039;s requests are a little more humble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He prefers flowers in happy colours and in particular green.  Although unlike Smarties &#8211; he doesn&#039;t like red ones.<br \/>\n<em>That is a weirdly constructed sentence &#8211; does that mean that he specifically requests Smarties candy in his rider?  Is it red Smarties or red flowers that he does not like?<\/em><\/p>\n<li>His luxurious room at Brisbane&#039;s Sofitel was to be magazine-free, there were to be no incoming calls and all alcohol removed from the mini bar &#8211; that&#039;s for religious reasons, not because of how expensive they are.<em>Makes sense, except I don&#039;t understand the magazine thing.  Calls could interrupt meditation, and alcohol is a temptation, but magazines?  Does he have a thing for Paris Hilton stories where he just can&#039;t help himself?<\/em>\n<li>No alcohol was to be consumed in his presence at functions and as for his meals, he also doesn&#039;t eat after 1pm.<em>I actually knew this from an earlier story.  Apparently he&#039;s quite the big eater when he does eat, which would make sense if he has to go the next 16 hours without any additional food.<\/em>\n<li>The Dalai Lama is a vegetarian and does not eat eggs, he likes to eat solo and and his preferred choice of beverage is still mineral water.<em>I do not think that he is a vegtarian.  I have heard other reports that he eats veal, and has claimed that doctor&#039;s tell him meat is good for him, something having to do with a liver condition.  I&#039;ve also read reports that call him to the carpet for hypocrisy on that point.<\/em>\n<li>His favourite dish is momos, which are Tibetan dumplings (recipe not supplied).  <em><a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tibetan+momos+recipe&#034;>Recipe easily searched<\/a>.<\/em>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#034;rider&#034; is a document often associated with musicians that dictates what sort of amenities they demand backstage. Some classics include things like &#034;a big bowl of M&#038;Ms with no yellow ones&#034;. The Dalai Lama&#039;s requests are a little more humble. He prefers flowers in happy colours and in particular green. Although unlike Smarties &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}