{"id":519,"date":"2008-03-31T05:53:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T05:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=519"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:05:39","slug":"andrew-biraj-wins-1st-prize-in-nppa-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/andrew-biraj-wins-1st-prize-in-nppa-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Biraj wins 1st prize in NPPA awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=519\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/IMG_05.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Andrew Biraj\" title=\"\u00a9 Andrew Biraj\" style=\"float: left\" class=\"review_photo\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Andrew Biraj&#8217;s photo story &#8220;Living With Water&#8221;, published here as a story of the week (<a href=\"content\/view\/135\/161\/\" target=\"_self\">Foto8 20 Jan<\/a>) has won <a href=\"http:\/\/bop.nppa.org\/2008\/still_photography\/winners\/index.php?cat=EPS&amp;place=1st\" target=\"_blank\">1st Place Environmental Picture Story<\/a> in the &#8220;Best of Photojournalism; NPPA of America 2008&#8221; Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbiraj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.andrewbiraj.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Biraj&#8217;s photo story &#8220;Living With Water&#8221;, published here as a story of the week (Foto8 20 Jan) has won 1st Place Environmental Picture Story in the &#8220;Best of Photojournalism; NPPA of America 2008&#8221; Awards. \u00a0 Congratulations! www.andrewbiraj.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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