{"id":3155,"date":"2011-02-24T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2011-02-24T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:36:15","slug":"3155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/24\/img-news\/3155\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Seattle Society Promotes &#8220;Visit Nepal 2011&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>February 24, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3156\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/photo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3155]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3156\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3156\" title=\"IMG Guide Greg Vernovage meets Nepalese Ambassador Shankar Prasad Sharma\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/photo.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Vernovage meets Nepalese Ambassador Shankar Prasad Sharma<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG Guide Greg Vernovage had the privilege of meeting a Nepalese VIP earlier this week:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153On February 20th, I was honored to meet with His Excellency Shankar Prasad Sharma, the Nepalese Ambassador to the United   States.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nepalseattle.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Nepal Seattle Society<\/a> to represent the <em><strong>Visit Nepal 2011<\/strong> <\/em>promotion.\u00c2\u00a0 On this special night I spoke with the Ambassador about tourism in Nepal as well as my experiences while climbing in the Himalaya.\u00c2\u00a0 The night was capped off with a documentary titled: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mmcE4FOUh8w\" target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sherpas &#8211; The True Heroes Of Mount Everest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> <\/em> Nice people, great footage of Mount Everest and a look at what some of the Sherpa do for everyone who climbs Mount Everest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 24, 2011 IMG Guide Greg Vernovage had the privilege of meeting a Nepalese VIP earlier this week: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On February 20th, I was honored to meet with His Excellency Shankar Prasad Sharma, the Nepalese Ambassador to the United States. The event was held by the Nepal Seattle Society to represent the Visit Nepal 2011 promotion.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}