{"id":106760,"date":"2016-12-01T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=106760"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:34:16","slug":"patten-back-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/patten-back-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Patten back to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not. Last governor Lord Patten, known for his eloquence in speaking and intelligence in thinking, admitted he was tongue-tight as he addressed students at the University of Hong Kong on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said he felt more ease speaking at Lok Yew Hall without a gown he had to do so when he was Chancellor of the university. But he made no secret his unease and bewilderment about what he should say to a young-looking crowd, many of whom were too young to witness the \u201chappiest years\u201d in his life (1992-1997) when he was the master of the Government House.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'pt serif', georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/12\/01\/patten-back-to-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/12\/01\/patten-back-to-the-future\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Chris Yeung Believe it or not. Last governor Lord Patten, known for his eloquence in speaking and intelligence in thinking, admitted he was tongue-tight as he addressed students at the University of Hong Kong on Tuesday. He said he felt more ease speaking at Lok Yew Hall without a gown he had to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":106658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column","category-sticky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1124\u5f6d\u5b9a\u5eb7\u6797\u7a4e\u5f64.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-rLW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}