{"id":7632,"date":"2022-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-paupers-of-joy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:05","slug":"the-paupers-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-paupers-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paupers of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I went out of my house begging for a word. I left no one on the road without examining them carefully. Apart from the few hasty greetings, I can say that those I saw were mostly inclined to silence. I am not saying that we have become strangers in our country, but rather that we are waiting for the hour of relief. This is us in Lebanon, we live with a problem the causes of which everyone is blaming the others for, and we inherited waiting for a breakthrough that I hope our grandchildren will find! Among the exceptions I saw were some youngsters lying in their complete filthiness near bins of rubbish as if they were in a park shaded by pine trees in Beirut or in Rome! They were engrossed in whispers and laughter. I did not hear a word they said, but I was pleased with their faces. The sweetest word today is those who insist on bathing in joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I went out of my house begging for a word. I left no one on the road without examining them carefully. Apart from the few hasty greetings, I can say that those I saw were mostly inclined to silence. I am not saying that we have become strangers in our country, but rather ...<\/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":[2768,2767,2207,1812,2769],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-resilience","tag-joy-in-suffering","tag-lebanon-christians","tag-orthodox-social-life","tag-spiritual-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","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=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}