{"id":973,"date":"2014-11-03T09:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=973"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:48:42","slug":"author-lu-chi-fa-visits-taft-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/author-lu-chi-fa-visits-taft-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Lu Chi Fa Visits Taft College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">By Lisa Ybarra<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Lu Chi Fa visited Taft College Monday, October 20th for his ninth year. He shared highlights from his book<em> Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan<\/em>. His book tells his incredible life story and how he went from living in poverty in China to living the American Dream. His lack of education motivated him to work hard so that he could better his life. He is a perfect example of hard work pays off. Students were served Chinese food while they listened to him speak. Lu Chi Fa was also kind enough to sign books.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_958\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"size-large wp-image-958\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0046-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"book signing\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signing copies of Double Luck<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-g6b2Ik9SQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_960\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-960\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0030-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"fa lecturering\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lu Chi Fa tells his life story<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Ybarra  Lu Chi Fa visited Taft College Monday, October 20th for his ninth year. He shared highlights from his book Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan. His book tells his incredible life story and how he went from living in poverty in China to living the American Dream. His lack of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}