{"id":2468,"date":"2009-07-24T22:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2011-08-21T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:25:32","slug":"photos-emory-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-emory-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sok Sabai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2469\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-emory-luncheon\/w_bvong_siv_emory\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/w_bvong_siv_emory.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,2119\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"w_bvong_siv_emory\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/w_bvong_siv_emory.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2469\" title=\"w_bvong_siv_emory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/w_bvong_siv_emory.jpg\" alt=\"w_bvong_siv_emory\" width=\"450\" height=\"2119\" \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Halle Speaker Series, Luncheon Presentation | July 24, 2009<br \/>\nHis Excellency Sichan Siv, Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations<br \/>\n\u201cThe Challenges of US Global Leadership\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Random Notes: &#8230;Just wanted to post these photos because the quality of light in the room was very nice, not the usual incandescent dungeon that most people hold events in.\u00a0 Another meeting with former Ambassador Siv, who gave me yet another accolade. \ud83d\ude42 Great to hear anecdotes from his life.\u00a0 Read his book, or check out his bio if you need some inspiration in your own\u00a0life.\u00a0 Made me wonder once again about\u00a0the path that is either given to you, or you carve yourself.\u00a0 Emory University&#8230;Coca-Cola, Doctors, Lawyers, Millionaires&#8230;here I am just taking pictures.\u00a0 You know, I once applied for a job at Emory&#8230;never heard anything back from them&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halle Speaker Series, Luncheon Presentation | July 24, 2009 His Excellency Sichan Siv, Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations \u201cThe Challenges of US Global Leadership\u201d Random Notes: &#8230;Just wanted to post these photos because the quality of light in the room was very nice, not the usual incandescent dungeon that most people hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[109],"class_list":{"0":"post-2468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-khmer","10":"post-with-thumbnail","11":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/0006.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-DO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1961,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-las-ball\/","url_meta":{"origin":2468,"position":0},"title":"Photos: LAS Ball 2009","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"February 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It was another busy night at this year's\u00a0LAS Ball, but it was a pleasure meeting former US Ambassador to the UN,\u00a0Mr. Sichan Siv. 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