{"id":58,"date":"2006-10-05T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-11-15T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:14:21","slug":"staying-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/news-updates\/staying-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"STAYING ALIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;\">\n<div>Last visit was a precursor to a time of famine and the valuable efforts to ship rice to 65 starving families.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Needless to say, Margaret and I have been especially anxious for our dear Khvein villagers to see how their crops are growing this season\u00a0and we have made the following welcome observations:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>1. The year&#8217;s monsoon has brought a good supply of rain.<\/div>\n<div>2.\u00a0 Village paddies are lush and green. We are reminded of the words,&#8221;Look, the fields are ripe for harvesting!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>3.\u00a0 Other crops that we have seen in the village that have produced well this year:<\/div>\n<div>*sweet potatoes\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>*casava (from the jungle)<\/div>\n<div>*papaya<\/div>\n<div>*egg plant<\/div>\n<div>*cucumber<\/div>\n<div>*long bean<\/div>\n<div>*gourd (winter melon)<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Not all villagers\u00a0grow these of course but they are used to bartering and exchanging amongst themselves.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Sweet potatoes are a cash crop and in good years there are two crops bringing welcome income.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So the signs are good that the village has an adequate basic food supply for this year.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #00407f; font-family: comic sans ms;\">Martin<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last visit was a precursor to a time of famine and the valuable efforts to ship rice to 65 starving families. \u00a0 Needless to say, Margaret and I have been especially anxious for our dear Khvein villagers to see how&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/news-updates\/staying-alive\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}