{"id":771,"date":"2012-05-31T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=771"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:43:13","slug":"mission-to-cambodia-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/05\/31\/mission-to-cambodia-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Cambodia Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mission to Cambodia 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from Becca Pippin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Becca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-765\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Becca\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Becca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>Welcome to the Land of Smiles<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-773\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2012Cambodia1\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me start by saying a traditional Thai massage is the best treatment for a body that has been cooped up on a plane for 30+ hours. A few of us just returned from getting massages down the street from our hotel and we are settling in for the night.<\/p>\n<p>The journey here was long and filled with excitement, nervousness, stinkiness and even some puking, so needless to say we are all pretty worn out. When we arrived, though, we all were re-energized at the sight of Susan\u2019s friends\u2019 smiling faces at the airport.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->From there, it was a whirlwind of new sights and experiences to take in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wild traffic and motos<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-774 alignnone\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2012Cambodia2\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our first ride on a tuk-tuk<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-775 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"2012Cambodia3\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Touring the hospital where we will begin working on Monday<\/li>\n<li>Eating dinner at Java, an American sandwich\/salad\/pasta caf\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Practicing our Khmer with Emily\u2019s iphone app<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-779 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2012Cambodia4\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia41-300x69.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia41-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2012Cambodia41.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And exploring the neighborhood around our hotel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are all so happy to have finally arrived!\u00a0 Please keep us in your prayers as we travel to the beach in Kep tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission to Cambodia 2012 from Becca Pippin Welcome to the Land of Smiles Let me start by saying a traditional Thai massage is the best treatment for a body that has been cooped up on a plane for 30+ hours. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/05\/31\/mission-to-cambodia-day-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-to-cambodia","category-chs","category-nursing","category-mission-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}