{"id":48815,"date":"2014-12-22T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=48815"},"modified":"2014-12-22T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T09:21:09","slug":"i-remember-when-i-briefly-lost-my-friend-during-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=48815","title":{"rendered":"I remember when I briefly lost my friend during tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My late brother&#8217;s wedding dinner reception was on Christmas Day, and my son had just turned two. I had just returned home from work in Langkawi the day before. We celebrated until late night with a karaoke session and turned in very late at the hotel in Subang Jaya. I remember waking up briefly at 10am because I felt a tremor but thought nothing of it and continued sleeping for another hour before checking out at noon to attend my cousin&#8217;s wedding in Kajang. Unbeknownst to millions who would be affected that day, a destructive wall of water was about to hit them.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1Honn9d\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My late brother&#8217;s wedding dinner reception was on Christmas Day, and my son had just turned two. I had just returned home from work in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48816,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48815\/revisions\/48816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}