{"id":8470,"date":"2013-11-11T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T01:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2013-11-11T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:28:58","slug":"praying-for-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/praying-for-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling so immobile lately &#8211; not posting so much of my client work yet.<\/p>\n<p>As I go about doing the everyday things, here in Singapore, my heart&#8217;s been aching at every sight of photos I come across the news online of every devastated homes and lost lives, of even really little children since the tragic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.sg\/search?q=Yolando&amp;oq=Yolando&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1932j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;espv=210&amp;es_sm=119&amp;ie=UTF-8#es_sm=119&amp;espv=210&amp;q=Typhoon+Yolanda&amp;tbm=nws\">super typhoon Yolanda<\/a> hit my dearest country Philippines, especially the closest neighboring towns of Cebu where I grew up. I couldn&#8217;t hep but suddenly cry while my little Pixie woke up this morning and I look at her intently, telling her how much I love her and then she mumbles her own baby talk and smiles. I&#8217;m torn apart thinking how parents out there now not having any proper shelter and food to eat with their children. These are those times when I wish I had real super powers like Superman does in the movies. But really, I can only help as much as I could within my reach, too.<\/p>\n<p>I like to take this moment to fervently pray that everyone greatly affected will stay strong and keep an even stronger faith that these, again, too, will pass soon.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do our own share to reach out and help,too in anyway we can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7275.Helen_Keller\">Helen Keller<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8473\" alt=\"2013-11-11_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-11_0001.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1795\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling so immobile lately &#8211; not posting so much of my client work yet. As I go about doing the everyday things, here in Singapore, my heart&#8217;s been aching at every sight of photos I come across the news online of every devastated homes and lost lives, of even really little children since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[394,48,396,395,393,391,390,392,389],"class_list":{"0":"post-8470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifes-musings","8":"tag-bantayan","9":"tag-cebu","10":"tag-help","11":"tag-leyte","12":"tag-malapascua","13":"tag-prayer","14":"tag-super-typhoon","15":"tag-tacloban","16":"tag-yolanda"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-11_0001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8478,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}