{"id":1235,"date":"2018-06-22T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2018-06-23T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T16:09:59","slug":"separating-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/separating-children\/","title":{"rendered":"separating children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of words have been written about the policy of our current President regarding refugees trying to enter the United States with children. I did not originally intend to add to them but I just ran across an extraordinary testimonial that touches on the issues of immigration and children.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/holocaustremembrance\/docs\/pdf\/chapter9.pdf\">link (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It struck me that there are similarities between my family&#8217;s loss of Zach and these family&#8217;s loss of their children. There are important differences, of course. Most importantly is that these children are not dead, but the separation is like a death. As Dr Krell illustrates, the change is profound in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are like these children, ripped from our loved one by forces we do not understand. I at least had a chance to say goodbye to Zach&#8217;s body. I don&#8217;t remember crying much that day while we were at the funeral home, but that night in the shower where I thought no one could hear me, I wailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of words have been written about the policy of our current President regarding refugees trying to enter the United States with children. I did not originally intend to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[555,554,553,6],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-children","tag-dr-krell","tag-immigration","tag-zach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}