{"id":19460,"date":"2019-11-14T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19460"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:53","slug":"latest-moving-comment-from-unites-joy-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19460","title":{"rendered":"Under the acacia tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On a Yemeni farm<\/p>\n<p>it was the spring planting season.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen year old<\/p>\n<p>Raja Hamid Yahya al-Oud<\/p>\n<p>that day with her mother,<\/p>\n<p>as on any other,<\/p>\n<p>rested under the acacia tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a Turkish beach<\/p>\n<p>Alan Kurdi from Kobane<\/p>\n<p>red tee shirt, blue shorts,<\/p>\n<p>lay face downwards.<\/p>\n<p>An image as distant as can be imagined<\/p>\n<p>from the photo left behind.<\/p>\n<p>His older brother and a teddy bear<\/p>\n<p>as big as the two of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the Arabian peninsula in Saada city<\/p>\n<p>the school bus was packed.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve year old Khaled<\/p>\n<p>chattered and laughed.<\/p>\n<p>A younger boy<\/p>\n<p>slept through the babble<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Children doing what<\/p>\n<p>children do the world over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the moment Khaled<\/p>\n<p>witnessed the carnage<\/p>\n<p>of his school friends<\/p>\n<p>play ended.<\/p>\n<p>His childhood dreams turned ugly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seas still swallow refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Kurdi washed up onto<\/p>\n<p>that Turkish beach<\/p>\n<p>never to be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her body twisted.<\/p>\n<p>The cluster bomb scattered<\/p>\n<p>its fatal munitions<\/p>\n<p>under the umbrella<\/p>\n<p>of the acacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sweet smelling leaves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Yemeni farm<\/p>\n<p>it was the spring planting season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[158],"wps_subtitle":"Latest moving comment from Unite's Joy Johnson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24863,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460\/revisions\/24863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}