{"id":800,"date":"2025-05-02T14:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/?p=800"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:32:54","slug":"sahaka-holiday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/sahaka-holiday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"SAHAKA HOLIDAY UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On the last day of the Khmer New Year, we took some of the Wat Opot children to the beach in Kep for a day of swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It had been a while since we had gone on an outing, and Dara and the children had a good time in the water; however, like times before, something in the water caused many of them to develop an annoying itch.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-805\" style=\"width:776px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kep2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We had our lunch delivered to us on the beach because the lines in the restaurants were very long due to the large number of people who decided to do the same thing that we did.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kampot-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-807\" style=\"width:790px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kampot-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kampot-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kampot-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kampot-1262x1536.jpg 1262w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kampot-1682x2048.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On the way back, we drove through Kampot so the kids could see the giant seahorse. I had no idea what they were talking about, even though they had described it to me very well. It was my first visit to the city, and I was quite impressed with how well it was planned.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Takeo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-808\" style=\"width:794px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Takeo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Takeo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Takeo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Takeo-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Takeo-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We finished the day with a stop at our favorite barbecue restaurant in Takeo before dropping them off at their homes and returning to Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If you would like to be a part of this, you can donate through the&nbsp;SAHAKA website,&nbsp;or if you live in Cambodia, use this QR code:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"566\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SAHAKA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" style=\"width:181px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SAHAKA.png 566w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SAHAKA-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of the Khmer New Year, we took some of the Wat Opot children to the beach in Kep for a day of swimming. It had been a while since we had gone on an outing, and Dara and the children had a good time in the water; however, like times before,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}