{"id":1220,"date":"2016-01-03T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2016-01-03T02:28:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T07:28:41","slug":"a-mother-opens-her-arms-to-syrias-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/1220\/","title":{"rendered":"A mother opens her arms to Syria\u2019s orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-98WbqwEfw\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you beyond imagination\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After taking care of the children for almost a year, it was time for Jamalat to say goodbye. All five children were relocated to Australia, where they are currently under the care of a local nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot forget the moments I spent with them, especially with Noor al-Deen,\u201d Jamalat recalls tearfully, pointing to one child as she scrolls through photos on her phone. \u201cI was helping him zip up his jacket before he left, when Mr. Mohammed [an officer from the United Nations refugee agency] asked if the children were ready. Noor al-Deen said \u2018Mama\u2019 and the word trembled on his lips. I didn&#8217;t want the kids to leave. But their future is more important than our sentiments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jamalat still keeps the children\u2019s drawings and photos on the walls of her home in Zaatari. It\u2019s hard for her to imagine them far away in the Pacific, but her dark eyes are bright and hopeful, knowing they will be reunited one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you beyond imagination,\u201d she says to the children in the photos. \u201cWe will all return to Syria together and live the best life\u2014the one you\u2019ve always dreamt about.\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/RS143_ZaatariHome2Outside-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"RS143_ZaatariHome2Outside\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/RS143_ZaatariHome2Outside-235x176.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/RS143_ZaatariHome2Outside-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nPosted in Children &amp; Youth, Syria Crisis, Jordan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cI love you beyond imagination\u201d After taking care of the children for almost a year, it was time for Jamalat to say goodbye. All five <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/1220\/\" title=\"A mother opens her arms to Syria\u2019s orphans\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society-economy","category-terrorism-fundamentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}