{"id":23983,"date":"2011-01-14T03:21:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_haiti_earthquake_survivors_pray_lament_a_day_that_nobody_can_forget_on_d\/"},"modified":"2011-01-14T03:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:21:33","slug":"in_haiti_earthquake_survivors_pray_lament_a_day_that_nobody_can_forget_on_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23983","title":{"rendered":"In Haiti, earthquake survivors pray, lament &#39;a day that nobody can forget&#39; on disaster&#39;s anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With shops closed and traffic light, Haitians streamed down the streets in spontaneous processions, women wearing white, holding their children&#8217;s hands, men in crisp shirts and ties, the clothes they would wear to church or a funeral.<\/p>\n<p>They went to the ruins of the National Cathedral, to pray the rosary at its front steps. The building is now a gutted, roofless shell. Some worshipers began to weep and shout out as they approached.<\/p>\n<p>At Saint Antoine de Padoue, they held Mass in an alley. &#8220;A day nobody can forget, no matter how young, even my son,&#8221; said Carline Amazan, who held a young boy&#8217;s hand and recalled how people ran naked through streets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/12\/AR2011011206418.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With shops closed and traffic light, Haitians streamed down the streets in spontaneous processions, women wearing white, holding their children&#8217;s hands, men in crisp shirts and ties, the clothes they would wear to church or a funeral. They went to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23983\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,206,241,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-caribbean","category-haiti","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}