{"id":673,"date":"2009-04-16T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2011-09-19T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T09:00:20","slug":"kenro-izu-angkor-hospital-for-children-siem-reap-cambodia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/kenro-izu-angkor-hospital-for-children-siem-reap-cambodia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenro Izu Angkor Hospital for Children Siem Reap Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had the pleasure of working with and photographing Kenro Izu an internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer &amp; humanitarian known best for his photographs of sacred places. Ten years ago, during a series of trips to photograph the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, Kenro was moved by his encounters with children disfigured by landmines and in need of medical care. As a way of returning something to Cambodia, he founded a nonprofit organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwab.org\/\">Friends Without A Border<\/a>, and built the <a href=\"http:\/\/angkorhospital.org\/default.php\">Angkor Hospital for Children<\/a> in 1999. Since that time, the hospital has treated over 560,000 children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/Sedp6SuQWMI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/LnaEma62CPI\/s1600-h\/KarlGrobl_AHC_2009_467.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325341534568077506\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/Sedp6SuQWMI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/LnaEma62CPI\/s320\/KarlGrobl_AHC_2009_467.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kenro and I spent a few days together, and visited several of his favorite temples, so that I could photograph him for an article in the June 2009 issue of Town and Country Magazine. It was a typical, hot day in Siem Reap, so Kenro and I took a short break and enjoyed a cold Angkor beer.<\/p>\n<p>For a look at the published article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlgrobl.com\/TownAndCountryAHCarticle\/Index.htm\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I had the pleasure of working with and photographing Kenro Izu an internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer &amp; humanitarian known best for his photographs of sacred places. Ten years ago, during a series of trips to photograph the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, Kenro was moved by his encounters with children disfigured by landmines and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}