{"id":12587,"date":"2010-01-13T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2010-01-13T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:41:08","slug":"kevin-pina-allow-aristide-to-return-to-haiti-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12587","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Pina: Allow Aristide to return to Haiti now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editorial by Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haiti is facing one of its most severe challenges after a large earthquake rocked the capital yesterday destroying most government buildings and killing possibly thousands. Now more than ever the people of Haiti need hope for the future and, as Haiti\u2019s ambassador to Washington, Raymond Joseph, said yesterday on CNN, \u201cWe need unity to meet the challenge of this crisis.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That unity must reach beyond the nasty and vindictive politics that have divided this tiny nation since the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide in February 2004. Haiti needs all the help she can get to provide the population with hope so that they might rally to mobilize against endemic despair in this darkest hour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbayview.com\/2010\/allow-aristide-to-return-to-haiti-now\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sfbayview+(San+Francisco+Bay+View)\">Read the editorial<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial by Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project Haiti is facing one of its most severe challenges after a large earthquake rocked the capital yesterday destroying most government buildings and killing possibly thousands. Now more than ever the people of Haiti &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3h1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12590,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}