{"id":120,"date":"2010-01-15T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/haiti-and-asking-why.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:21:00","slug":"haiti-and-asking-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/haiti-and-asking-why.html","title":{"rendered":"Haiti and asking “why”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For good reason, the devastation in Haiti is all over the news, and in our hearts and minds and prayers as well. I’m hoping to write more about it, but for now, here is a piece I posted to the Park Forum yesterday: “There is no explanation for why my daughter is going to die..<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For good reason, the devastation in Haiti is all over the news, and in our hearts and minds and prayers as well. I’m hoping to write more about it, but for now, here is a piece I posted to the Park Forum yesterday: “There is no explanation for why my daughter is going to die…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-syndrome"],"yoast_head":"\nHaiti and asking "why"? - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/haiti-and-asking-why.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Haiti and asking "why"? - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For good reason, the devastation in Haiti is all over the news, and in our hearts and minds and prayers as well. 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