{"id":4546,"date":"2021-07-08T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"pray-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"PRAY FOR HAITI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My day started with news of the assassination of Haiti&#8217;s president, Jovenel Moise. Gunmen gained entrance to the president&#8217;s house late last night and gunned him down. His wife suffered serious injury as well and is currently in a Florida hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Man&#8217;s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!&#8221; &#8211; Robert Burns<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Haiti, it is 11 million who mourn and face a truly uncertain future.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11 million souls!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news left me feeling deeply discouraged.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haiti&#8217;s daily existence is marked by severe poverty, hunger, unemployment, political instability, kidnappings, and gang violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tiny minority of individuals, fueled by greed for wealth and hunger for power, hold the entire nation hostage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can their grip ever be broken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My day started with news of the assassination of Haiti&#8217;s president, Jovenel Moise. Gunmen gained entrance to the president&#8217;s house late last night and gunned him down. His wife suffered serious injury as well and is currently in a Florida hospital.\u00a0 &#8220;Man&#8217;s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!&#8221; &#8211; Robert Burns For Haiti, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}