{"id":3470,"date":"2014-05-30T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2014-05-30T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:53:02","slug":"english-lecture-beautiful-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2014\/05\/english-lecture-beautiful-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"English Lecture: Beautiful Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first\u00a0English Lecture for 2014 featured a packed programme. We began with the\u00a0presentation of a <em>Half Million Words<\/em> award to Aika Sakisako (<a title=\"500,000 words!\" href=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2014\/05\/500000-words\/\">see full story here<\/a>). Mizuki Miyamoto also received a small prize for perfect attendance at all our events so far this year!<\/p>\n<p>Following that,\u00a0Nanako Hirahara,\u00a0Haruka Otaguro,\u00a0Miki Soejima, and\u00a0Sayuri Tsutsumi gave an inspiring 25-minute presentation on <strong>ANAKOT<\/strong>\u2014their volunteer project for providing educational materials to students in Cambodia. Then, our special guest, Wai Wai Hnin gave a captivating lecture about her home country, &#8220;Beautiful Myanmar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was an excellent start to our\u00a0English Lecture programme for the year that kept our students interested and involved from beginning to end!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3470 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2014\/05\/english-lecture-beautiful-myanmar\/lecture101\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lecture101-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lecture101-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lecture101-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, 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We began with the\u00a0presentation of a Half Million Words award to Aika Sakisako (see full story here). Mizuki Miyamoto also received a small prize for perfect attendance at all our events so far this year! Following that,\u00a0Nanako Hirahara,\u00a0Haruka Otaguro,\u00a0Miki Soejima, and\u00a0Sayuri Tsutsumi gave an inspiring 25-minute &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}