{"id":169,"date":"2010-01-15T05:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsinthefield.wordpress.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-01-15T05:26:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:26:31","slug":"back-at-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/back-at-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Back at the beginning\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A story from Denis and Annegret, Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15 years ago, our son S\u00e9bastien suddenly said to us: &#8220;I am bored working at L&#8217;Oreal. I\u2019m tired of being in an office and shampoo is not exactly what I am passionate about. Its time for me to do something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are you going? What will you do?&#8221; We were thinking he would join another decent company and settle down in Paris, not too far away. France is a good country, the climate is nice. there is no civil war, no big humanitarian crisis, nice people (mostly), good food, good wines, wonderful culture, nice countries nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to Cambodia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to Cambodia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, do you know what happens there? It&#8217;s very bad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, so what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd? What will you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalism, translations, teaching&#8230;whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd where will you be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Phnom Penh!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that the name of the main city?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Phnom Penh!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhnom Penh? Are you sure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And off he went. What can you do with a 29 old son,\u00a0who is free and young\u00a0and wants to explore the world?<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, at the beginning of August 1994 we got a fax telling us that he had founded a center for street children.<\/p>\n<p>We cried with happiness.<\/p>\n<p>And we decided them that we would help as much and well as we\u00a0could!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story from Denis and Annegret, Paris 15 years ago, our son S\u00e9bastien suddenly said to us: &#8220;I am bored working at L&#8217;Oreal. I\u2019m tired of being in an office and shampoo is not&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[44,68,107,626,203,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}