{"id":22907,"date":"1951-08-29T12:34:30","date_gmt":"1951-08-29T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=22907"},"modified":"2019-04-17T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T22:57:24","slug":"departing-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=22907","title":{"rendered":"Yap Yit Poh Departs Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/FH\/2.html\">Yap Yit Poh<\/a>, departed Singapore for Australia to study Medicine at <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/\">Sydney University<\/a> under the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombo_Plan\">Colombo Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eresources.nlb.gov.sg\/newspapers\/Digitised\/Article\/freepress19510829-1.2.60?ST=1&amp;AT=search&amp;k=%22Yap%20Yit%20Poh%22&amp;QT=%22yapyitpoh%22&amp;oref=article\">The Singapore Free Press, 1951 August 29<\/a><br \/>\nACS BOY FOR AUSTRALIA<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22909\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"523\" \/><br \/>\nMr Yap Yit Poh, 20-year-old second-son of former miner, the late <a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/FH\/196.html\">Yap Swee<\/a>, who will be leaving by the \u201cGorgon\u201d for Australia tomorrow to study Medicine at Sydney University. Mr Yap is an old boy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/acsipohalumni.com.my\/\">Anglo-Chinese School<\/a>, Ipoh and secured a first grader certificate in last year\u2019s Senior Cambridge examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yap Yit Poh, departed Singapore for Australia to study Medicine at Sydney University under the Colombo Plan. The Singapore Free[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[860,2451,3332,3813,4132],"class_list":["post-22907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-history","tag-colombo-program","tag-mv-gorgon","tag-singapore","tag-travel","tag-yap-yit-poh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23019,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions\/23019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}