{"id":309,"date":"2019-05-30T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/?p=309"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:33:09","slug":"spending-time-with-the-freedom-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/2019\/05\/30\/spending-time-with-the-freedom-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending time with the Freedom Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/3f9a68b2-27e6-4fbc-8576-4168fa33b5b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have had the privilege to spend time with the Freedom Story including many university students. We made personal connections, practiced our Thai and English, and just generally enjoyed the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/5847e691-1e45-4230-abda-ec8a926ef6db-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meals in the Night Market topped off with fresh fruit smoothies and live music.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-327\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a fantastic meeting with Freedom Story to discuss ways we can contribute to their work, we had a nice walk around the local villages. We gained new insight into some of the local community issues at play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-328\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also had really nice views of the mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a serious downpour of rain, things cooled off and the nice breeze made walking through the community pleasant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-312\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/>A fun day of games and activities getting to know youth at the Freedom Story. \u00a0Making friends and having fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-325\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2636-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/>We had so much fun playing games with the kids and just getting some relaxed socializing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had the privilege to spend time with the Freedom Story including many university students. We made personal connections,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}