{"id":1442,"date":"2021-11-10T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T02:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=1442"},"modified":"2023-02-01T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:39:02","slug":"nus-grad-rejected-google-job-and-now-builds-floating-gardens","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/news\/nus-grad-rejected-google-job-and-now-builds-floating-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"NUS grad rejected Google job and now builds floating gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1443\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1443 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/NUS-ESP-Alumnus-Straits-Times.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/NUS-ESP-Alumnus-Straits-Times.jpg 860w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/NUS-ESP-Alumnus-Straits-Times-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/11\/NUS-ESP-Alumnus-Straits-Times-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nus Esp Alumnus (straits Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NUS ESP Alumnus, Mr Muhammad Ibnur Rashad Zainal Abidin, was featured in The Straits Times, 8 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Muhammad Ibnur Rashad Zainal Abidin started an innovation lab for social and environmental good with just $7,000 in seed funds, despite getting a job offer from Google in 2011.&#8221; &#8211; The Straits Times, 8 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/parenting-education\/nus-grad-rejected-google-job-and-now-builds-floating-gardens\">here<\/a> for the full article. Link and photo courtesy of The Straits Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUS ESP Alumnus, Mr Muhammad Ibnur Rashad Zainal Abidin, was featured in The Straits Times, 8 November 2021. &#8220;Mr Muhammad Ibnur Rashad Zainal Abidin started an innovation lab for social and environmental good with just $7,000 in seed funds, despite getting a job offer from Google in 2011.&#8221; &#8211; The Straits Times, 8 November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":1443,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[21],"class_list":["post-1442","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14354,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1442\/revisions\/14354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}