{"id":3049,"date":"2008-04-06T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2008-04-06T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T20:14:48","slug":"there-are-no-checkpoints-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"There are No Checkpoints in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>My Father Died Alone in Gaza<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By RAMZY BAROUD<\/p>\n<p>I still vividly remember my father&#8217;s face &#8211; wrinkled, apprehensive, warm &#8211; as he last  wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my  family&#8217;s home in a Gaza refugee camp wearing old yellow pyjamas and a seemingly  ancient robe. As I hauled my one small suitcase into a taxi that would take me  to an Israeli airport an hour away, my father stood still. I wished he would go  back inside; it was cold and the soldiers could pop up at any moment. As my car  moved on, my father eventually faded into the distance, along with the  graveyard, the water tower and the camp. It never occurred to me that I would  never see him again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/baroud04052008.html\">Read the story<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Father Died Alone in Gaza By RAMZY BAROUD I still vividly remember my father&#8217;s face &#8211; wrinkled, apprehensive, warm &#8211; as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my family&#8217;s home &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3049\">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-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}