{"id":657,"date":"2011-03-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.mikehorn.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-03-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:00:00","slug":"akira-speaks-to-malaysian-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/akira-speaks-to-malaysian-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Akira speaks to Malaysian Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tOne thousand Chinese-Malaysian kids slowly but surely fill the assembly hall at Tsung Tsing Secondary School in Kota Kinabalu at 8:15AM.<\/p>\n<p>\tIt was magical how the lively crowd went silent as I reached out for the microphone. I truly had the feeling that virtually every single one of those students was actually listening to what I was saying. It was great to have the opportunity to speak to such a massive audience and share my knowledge about ocean conservation. I was particularly glad to be able to approach them regarding shark conservation as they are the very ones that consume the infamous shark fin soup.<\/p>\n<p>\tOne could make out marveled faces as they saw pictures of an intact coral reef and shocked faces as they were confronted with a compilation of photographs of industrial shark finning. I profoundly hope to have been able to plant a seed in their minds that will grow to be environmentally conscious and caring for our oceans.<\/p>\n<p>\tIt&#39;s up to us, to not repeat the mistakes of our predecessors and to change our behavior. &#8211; Make the connection!<\/p>\n<p>\thttp:\/\/www.sttss.edu.my\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thousand Chinese-Malaysian kids slowly but surely fill the assembly hall at Tsung Tsing Secondary School in Kota Kinabalu at 8:15AM. It was magical how the lively crowd went silent as I reached out for the microphone. I truly had the feeling that virtually every single one of those students was actually listening to what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}