{"id":2860,"date":"2013-03-05T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2013-03-12T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:09:09","slug":"promoting-development-with-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/promoting-development-with-helen\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Development With Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6449.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2862\" alt=\"Miguelitos Little Green Car-6449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6449.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6449.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6449-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Promoting Development With Helen<\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Helen Clark<br \/>\nAdministrator, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\">United Nations Development Program<\/a><br \/>\nFormer Prime Minister of New Zealand<br \/>\nMarch 5, 2013<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairmont.com\/palliser-calgary\/\">Fairmont Palliser Hotel<\/a><br \/>\nCalgary, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Serving three consecutive terms from 1999-2008, Helen Clark was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand.\u00a0 She was the first woman elected to that office.\u00a0 Since 2009 she has been the Administor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\">United Nations Development Program (UNDP)<\/a>, the third-highest UN position.<\/p>\n<p>This is what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmund_Hillary\">Sir Edmund Hillary<\/a> had to say about Helen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our prime minister has been rather unique in being a great lover of the out of doors and she&#8217;s always off climbing something, doing something exciting and I think that New Zealanders admire that. That is sort of the way of life that they have come to accept in our little old island in the south seas. But Helen has been particularly strong in this respect. So long may she reign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more about Helen see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Clark\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Clark<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/operations\/leadership\/administrator\/biography\/\">http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/operations\/leadership\/administrator\/biography\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n[info]Helen is the child of a primary school teacher and a farmer.[\/info]\n[info]<em>Forbes<\/em> magazine ranked her the 20th most powerful woman in 2006 and 50th in 2012.[\/info]\n[info]In 2011, The Financial Post identified Helen as the 50th most powerful woman in the world.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2011\/08\/24\/merkel-ranked-worlds-most-powerful-woman\/\">http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2011\/08\/24\/merkel-ranked-worlds-most-powerful-woman\/<\/a>.[\/info]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoting Development With Helen Featuring Helen Clark Administrator, United Nations Development Program Former Prime Minister of New Zealand March 5, 2013 Fairmont Palliser Hotel Calgary, Alberta, Canada Serving three consecutive terms from 1999-2008, Helen Clark was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand.\u00a0 She was the first woman elected to that office.\u00a0 Since 2009 she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,46,6,233],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}