{"id":487,"date":"2007-09-14T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=487"},"modified":"2007-09-14T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:02:00","slug":"inauguration-of-mocohan-schoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/09\/14\/inauguration-of-mocohan-schoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of Mocohan School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/inaugworsh.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, after 8 months of school, we officially opened school #3 (though 4 are operating) with a big to-do! I decided that I would film and photograph the event, though no one asked me to. Hey! It was better than sitting in the sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/inaugschool.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I actually enjoyed the event quite a bit. The worship time was cool because all the children from the four schools were gathered in one place &#8211; about 400 students plus teachers, local parents, dignitaries, and 8 folks from a mission team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/inaugteam.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The sound from the singing was fantastic&#8230; and though the sun was really bright, I was thankful for the light. Normally, all the worship takes place in poorly lit rooms, so photos aren&#8217;t well rendered.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/inaugribbon.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The speeches were short and clear and well-intended.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/inaugtamal.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And then the food. These are tamales. I&#8217;m not a fan, so fortunately, the adults were served a great soup with roast beef in it. <\/p>\n<p>Great event though and it this school is a huge blessing for this community where there are hundreds of children not attending school because there just isn&#8217;t room in the one public school. A whole other discussion is the parents&#8217; attitudes towards education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, after 8 months of school, we officially opened school #3 (though 4 are operating) with a big to-do! I decided that I would film and photograph the event, though no one asked me to. Hey! It was better than sitting in the sun. I actually enjoyed the event quite a bit. The worship &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/09\/14\/inauguration-of-mocohan-schoo\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-487","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-education","9":"category-food","10":"category-guatemala","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}