{"id":238,"date":"2010-01-20T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/01\/another-strong-earthquake-hits-haitimercy.html"},"modified":"2010-01-20T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:40:04","slug":"another-strong-earthquake-hits-haitimercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/01\/another-strong-earthquake-hits-haitimercy.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Strong Earthquake Hits Haiti&#8230;Lord Have Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about where God has or has not been in the days following the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. This morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/2iqA7u\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2010\/01\/strong_earthquake_shakes_haiti.html?ft=1&amp;f=103943429\">it was reported <\/a>that another quake, this one a 6.1 on the Richter scale, shook the ground in Port au Prince and it is chaos. An NPR reporter described it like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; \"><\/p>\n<div id=\"flashcontent20100120_blog_haitichaos\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/media1\/mediaplayer.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"20\" id=\"mediaplayer1\" name=\"mediaplayer1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"callback=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/media1\/track.php?Log=1&amp;file=http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/blog\/2010\/01\/20100120_blog_haitichaos.mp3\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"flashcontent20100120_blog_haitichaos\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; \"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div id=\"flashcontent20100120_blog_haitichaos\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">I cannot imagine what these people are going through. I cannot imagine what I would be doing if I were hungry and thirsty and watching my friends and family suffer in this way. Lord, have mercy.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about where God has or has not been in the days following the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. This morning it was reported that another quake, this one a 6.1 on the Richter scale, shook the ground in Port au Prince and it is chaos. 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