{"id":8748,"date":"2023-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/deference\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:49:25","slug":"deference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/deference\/","title":{"rendered":"Deference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon our arrival at YUL airport, we were greeted with obvious deference. Any official, before whom we stood, was facilitating our passage. I asked my daughter-in-law about this facilitation. She said, \u201cthe baby (my little granddaughter whom we had put on a \u201cspecial stroller\u201d), and you. Here, the human being is revered, especially if he were a child or an elderly person\u201d. At the airport, my son asked me to rest in a nearby seat while waiting for our luggage to arrive. There was a man across from me. His face caught my attention. When my daughter-in-law approached me, she saw me peering closely at him. She asked me if I knew him. I replied: \u201cI have a friend who visits \u201cmy page\u201d every day, Nimr Elchacra, who holds a job at the airport. Do you think the man is employed here?\". The man did not let her answer me. He drew near to the baggage claim. He took a bag and left. He was a traveler just like us. I went out to my daughter, who had arrived from Paris about two hours before us, and a friend who were waiting for us outside. That was our agreement that she would spend her vacation with us. May God be with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon our arrival at YUL airport, we were greeted with obvious deference. Any official, before whom we stood, was facilitating our passage. I asked my daughter-in-law about this facilitation. She said, \u201cthe baby (my little granddaughter whom we had put on a \u201cspecial stroller\u201d), and you. Here, the human being is revered, especially if he ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2147,1594,2148,2146,2016],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-hospitality","tag-family-values","tag-orthodox-social-ethics","tag-respect-for-elders","tag-travel-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}