{"id":2892,"date":"2015-09-29T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T03:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T03:07:49","slug":"out-of-the-strong-comes-forth-sweetness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/out-of-the-strong-comes-forth-sweetness\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Strong Comes Forth Sweetness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/victorfull.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2894\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/victorfull-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"victorfull\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve encountered a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize before today, and I wouldn&#8217;t have expected it\u00a0to\u00a0be about the food, in any case. But Victor Ochen has been on campus, and here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coreywilsonphoto.com\/\">Corey<\/a> posted on Facebook this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><em>Today I spent two life-changing hours photographing 2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Victor Ochen, 33, from Uganda. I witnessed two unstaged acts. First, he bussed most all of the dishes from the guest dining table &#8211; of which HE was the guest of honor. Second, he went out of his way to playfully engage a developmentally challenged dining service worker and addressed him by name. I can&#8217;t remember a single word Victor said. But his actions were incredibly powerful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, tonight, Ochen\u00a0accepted the St. Norbert Ambassador of Peace Award \u2013 the youngest person to be so honored, and the first African. He told his Birder Hall audience about growing up in a region terrorized by rebel forces. It&#8217;s not the bullets that terrify you, he said. It&#8217;s the disease, the hunger, the conditions of war.<\/p>\n<p>For seven years, his family coped. On\u00a0just one meal a day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more on Victor Ochen in the next issue of @St. Norbert, out Oct. 6.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve encountered a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize before today, and I wouldn&#8217;t have expected it\u00a0to\u00a0be about the food, in any case. But Victor Ochen has been on campus, and here&#8217;s what Corey posted on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/out-of-the-strong-comes-forth-sweetness\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}