{"id":1935,"date":"2014-01-25T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:17:32","slug":"were-committed-recording-of-speech-at-radisson-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/were-committed-recording-of-speech-at-radisson-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re COMMITTED: Recording of Speech At Radisson Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-of-me-giving-speech-at-Radisson-hotel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-of-me-giving-speech-at-Radisson-hotel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"At Radisson Hotel\" class=\"wp-image-1936\" title=\"At Radisson Hotel\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-of-me-giving-speech-at-Radisson-hotel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-of-me-giving-speech-at-Radisson-hotel.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the campaign <a title=\"We\u2019re COMMITTED: A Fundraiser\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/fundraising\/were-committed-a-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;We&#8217;re COMMITTED&#8221;<\/a> (to) raising awareness about, and fundraising for, the silent and innocent victims children of dead migrants, a ticketed dinner and performance was held at Radisson Hotel on January 4, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the event, I gave a short speech explaining why we were doing it. Recognising that there may be a significant number of attendees that might not understand English very well, I had a go at translating my <a title=\"We&#039;re COMMITTED: Education is Freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/were-committed-education-is-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original English speech<\/a>, which I gave at the ticketed dinner at Capital Grill, into Nepalese on the fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Incidentally, I made a major mistake! I say I left the country for the first time in 1998 instead of 1988.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the play button below to listen to the result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/other_files\/Speech_At_Radisson_Hotel.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"We\u2019re COMMITTED: Education is Freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/were-committed-education-is-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for the original text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the ticketed dinner and show the evening of January 4, 2014 at Radisson Hotel, as the face of &#8220;We&#8217;re COMMITTED&#8221; awareness and fundraising campaign, I gave a short speech describing the reasons behind our campaign.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[138,60,143,109,139,166,114],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-children-of-dead-migrants","tag-free-dorje-gurung-campaign","tag-government-school-education","tag-human-rights","tag-poverty","tag-qatari-jail","tag-speeches"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-of-me-giving-speech-at-Radisson-hotel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-vd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}