{"id":6752,"date":"2021-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/blog-post\/for-the-sake-of-the-children\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:43:20","slug":"for-the-sake-of-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/for-the-sake-of-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Sake of the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\u201cJames\u201d, my grandson, increases my sadness over the children in our closed world. The child wants to discover things. He wants to get out; to roam freely with his parents outside the door; to pray \u201cin the midst of the assembly\u201d. He wants to show love to nature, to caress the roses, and smell their perfume; to eat in an outdoor place; to befriend; to play; to have blasts of wind pinch kisses from his cheeks; to challenge the freedom of birds; to stop the passing dogs; to chase the stray cats. He wants to see the faces; to see people\u2019s eyes jumping with joy, upon seeing him; to recognize his indispensability in life, his magnificence to those near and far. I have once said that I think God will save us of this pandemic for the sake of the children\u2019s joy. Today I am saying that He will do it for the sake of one child, a single child, any child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\u201cJames\u201d, my grandson, increases my sadness over the children in our closed world. The child wants to discover things. He wants to get out; to roam freely with his parents outside the door; to pray \u201cin the midst of the assembly\u201d. He wants to show love to nature, to caress the roses, and smell their ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}