{"id":1683,"date":"2011-06-30T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2011-06-30T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:14:09","slug":"friends-and-silkair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/friends-and-silkair\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and SilkAir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our long-term and valued supporter and partner <a title=\"SilkAir Mith Samlanh article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silkair.com\/mbe\/en_UK\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silk Air<\/a> feature a very special story about the work of Friends-International in the latest edition of \u2018Silkwinds\u2019, their in-flight magazine. In it we follow the ups and downs in the story of Sopheap Sok, who first came to Friends in 1996 as a disadvantaged young man determined to turn his life around and who, with the support of Friends, \u00a0is now a successful businessman supporting his own children through their education to achieve a better future. Our grateful thanks indeed to Silk Air for giving us permission to reproduce the article here. (Words &amp; Pictures, Andy Gray).<\/p>\n<p>You can view the a PDF version <a title=\"Silkwinds Mith Samlanh Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SW_JUL11_40_43_PROFILE_14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SilkAir_1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1684\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1684\" title=\"SilkAir Mith Samlanh Article\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SilkAir_1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"SilkAir Mith Samlanh Article\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silkwinds Mith Samlanh Article page 1<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1685\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SilkAir_2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1685\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1685\" title=\"SilkAir Mith Samlanh Article page 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SilkAir_2-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"SilkAir Mith Samlanh Article page 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silkwinds Mith Samlanh Article page 2<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our long-term and valued supporter and partner Silk Air feature a very special story about the work of Friends-International in the latest edition of \u2018Silkwinds\u2019, their in-flight magazine. In it we follow the ups&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,34,8],"tags":[627,122,223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}