{"id":869,"date":"2011-02-21T02:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsintl.wordpress.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2011-02-21T02:38:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:38:06","slug":"the-like-mes-first-childsafe-rock-band-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/the-like-mes-first-childsafe-rock-band-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Like Me\u2019s \u2013 first ChildSafe rock band in the world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ladies and Gentlemen, may we present the world\u2019s first ChildSafe rock band\u2026 all the way from Northern California, its\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Laura &amp; the Like Me\u2019s!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>No, not some elaborate joke, but the honest-to-goodness truth. Laura Mam and her three bandmates, Loren Alonzo, Helena Hong and Monique Coquilla, who are currently on tour in Cambodia, took time out from their hectic schedule to not only visit the FI office and the Mith Samlanh center in Phnom Penh, but to undertake training from our ChildSafe team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_872\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-like-mes-020.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-872\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-872\" title=\"The Like Mes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-like-mes-020.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"ChildSafe Friends-International Mith Samlanh The Like Mes\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Like Mes at Friends-International with their newly acquired ChildSafe training certificates.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The hotly-tipped band are the first rock group to have completed this training, and have very graciously agreed to be global ChildSafe Ambassadors, spreading the word on ChildSafe and the work of Friends-International wherever their travels take them. The all-female group are definitely musicians with a mission, \u2018Healing through Expression, Interpreting Adversity, Celebrating Adventure\u2019 being the tagline on their website. We\u2019ll keep you up to date with how this exciting collaboration evolves in the coming weeks, but for the moment you can read (and hear) more about the Like Me\u2019s on their website,  <a href=\"http:\/\/thelikemes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thelikemes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_871\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-like-mes-026.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-871\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-871\" title=\"The Like Mes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-like-mes-026.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"ChildSafe Friends-International Mith Samlanh The Like Mes\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Like Mes at Mith Samlanh<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_873\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-like-mes-025.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-873\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-873\" title=\"The Like Mes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-like-mes-025.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"ChildSafe Friends-International Mith Samlanh The Like Mes\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Like Mes at Mith Samlanh<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ladies and Gentlemen, may we present the world\u2019s first ChildSafe rock band\u2026 all the way from Northern California, its\u2026 Laura &amp; the Like Me\u2019s!\u2019 No, not some elaborate joke, but the honest-to-goodness truth. Laura&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,27],"tags":[627,623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}