{"id":8139,"date":"2007-12-07T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2007-12-07T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:21:37","slug":"true-devoted-journalist-turning-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=8139","title":{"rendered":"A true and devoted journalist turning 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/arton245-085ff.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-925\" alt=\"Gordon Martin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/arton245-085ff.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>A true journalist can never retire\u00a0! Mr.\u00a0Gordon Martin, our senior colleague just turned 80, and the day was celebrated with friends and colleagues from all over the world who came to pay tribute to Mr.\u00a0Martin.<br \/>\nMr.\u00a0Gordon, as most of us call him, is a British gentleman in the best sense of the word. Perhaps you have read his articles or listened to his radio programmes, for Mr.\u00a0Gordon is and was one of the top journalists with Reuters, the BBC and the Daily Telegraph before he was \u2019supposed\u2019 to retire.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/divainternational.ch\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L220xH281\/gordon2-16bc2.gif\" width=\"220\" height=\"281\" \/>However, feeling too engaged in world affairs, Mr\u00a0Gordon went off to Afghanistan as a war correspondent \u2026before returning to Geneva to work for Vatican Radio. He has journalism in his blood.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/divainternational.ch\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L220xH113\/Gordonpeople-5051b.gif\" width=\"220\" height=\"113\" \/>You see him in the Palais des Nations, in press briefings of all kinds, in the Swiss Press Club, and it would never occur to you that he is too old to follow what is happening in this world \u2014 on the contrary\u00a0! Hardly anybody has such experience of world affairs as he does, and we in Pressroom 1 are very pleased to have a colleague of such stature.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/divainternational.ch\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L220xH122\/Gordonpeople2-f3dd1.gif\" width=\"220\" height=\"122\" \/><br \/>\nMany Happy Returns\u00a0! We look forward to celebrating your 100th anniversary\u00a0!<br \/>\nYour colleagues in Pressroom 1<br \/>\n(Copyright photos\u00a0: WHIB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true journalist can never retire\u00a0! Mr.\u00a0Gordon Martin, our senior colleague just turned 80, and the day was celebrated with friends and colleagues from all over the world who came to pay tribute to Mr.\u00a0Martin. Mr.\u00a0Gordon, as most of us call him, is a British gentleman in the best sense of the word. Perhaps you<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=8139\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,2078],"tags":[2138,2338,2695,3151,3476,4236,4693],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-geneva-international","tag-afghanistan","tag-bbc","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-gordon-martin","tag-jounalist","tag-reuters","tag-vatican-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}