{"id":319,"date":"2005-04-25T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2005-04-25T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T23:22:00","slug":"banyan-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/25\/banyan-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Banyan Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love this image for movement, decentralization and my own work in OpenSpaceTech<\/a> and the world…<\/p>\n

When I was trying to explain the new paradigm of a movement and the relevance of decentralization in this world, Jayeshbhai promptly summarized it — ‘Just like a banyan tree.’ Indeed. Banyan tree starts with a root but when any of its branches hit the ground, they become roots too. In a short period, it’s impossible to figure out the original root, and it’s also very difficult to remove a banyan tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a remarkable blog by Nipun<\/a> Mehta, who’s walking and blogging his way through India with his partner Guri<\/a>. Thanks to Christopher<\/a> for catching this one for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love this image for movement, decentralization and my own work in OpenSpaceTech and the world… When I was trying to explain the new paradigm of a movement and the relevance of decentralization in this world, Jayeshbhai promptly summarized it — ‘Just like a banyan tree.’ Indeed. Banyan tree starts with a root but when … <\/p>\n

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