{"id":91,"date":"2019-02-06T07:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uthant.org\/?p=91"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:51:01","slug":"u-thant-and-the-unv-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"U Thant and the UNV Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the legacy of U Thant is the establishment of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in 1970.  Here is a copy of U Thant\u2019s letter to President Nixon advocating for future UN Volunteers (credit: Toily Kurbanov).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/uthant.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/U-Thant-to-Nixon-836x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uthant.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/U-Thant-to-Nixon-836x1024.jpeg 836w, https:\/\/uthant.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/U-Thant-to-Nixon-245x300.jpeg 245w, https:\/\/uthant.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/U-Thant-to-Nixon-768x941.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uthant.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/U-Thant-to-Nixon.jpeg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the legacy of U Thant is the establishment of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in 1970. Here is a copy of U Thant\u2019s letter to President Nixon advocating for future UN Volunteers (credit: Toily Kurbanov).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,11,12],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legacy","tag-legacy","tag-unv","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uthant.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}