{"id":24167,"date":"2019-10-28T09:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=24167"},"modified":"2019-10-28T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:41:43","slug":"us-secretary-of-energy-rick-perry-hails-unified-spirit-of-first-global-challenge-2019-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/us-secretary-of-energy-rick-perry-hails-unified-spirit-of-first-global-challenge-2019-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary Of Energy Rick Perry Hails Unified Spirit Of FIRST Global Challenge 2019 In Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry attended the concluding day of the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai today and conveyed a message of hope, cooperation and excitement for the future of society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a celebration of the human spirit, a demonstration of our youth breaking out and breaking down long-standing cultural barriers,\u201d Senator Perry said, discussing the involvement of some 1,500 students from 191 countries in the third edition of the annual robotics competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese kids are teaching us adults a lesson,\u201d he added. \u201cThey\u2019re showing us that people from all over the world can come together and learn to love and respect one another while casting aside some of the old ways of thinking, where some cultures historically don\u2019t get along. They are doing away with old stereotypes that society can perpetuate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Perry also visited Team UAE at Festival Arena to wish the members well for the future and learn about the technology they had developed for the competition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21-732x488.jpg 732w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4-21.jpg 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry attended the concluding day of the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai today and conveyed a message of hope, cooperation and excitement for the future of society. \u201cThis is a celebration of the human spirit, a demonstration of our youth breaking out and breaking down long-standing cultural barriers,\u201d Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24170,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167\/revisions\/24170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}