{"id":22878,"date":"2022-12-07T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=22878"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:05:13","slug":"a-poignant-picture-do-you-know-what-this-lebanese-father-is-carrying-in-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/a-poignant-picture-do-you-know-what-this-lebanese-father-is-carrying-in-his-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"A poignant picture: Do you know what this Lebanese father is carrying in his hand?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A-small-heart-in-hands-with-clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22880\" width=\"256\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A-small-heart-in-hands-with-clouds.jpg 378w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A-small-heart-in-hands-with-clouds-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FatherDeadNewborn.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22879\" width=\"525\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FatherDeadNewborn.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FatherDeadNewborn-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 85vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption>A very moving picture taken from <em>An Nahar<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture above shows a citizen from Northern Lebanon (Akkar) walking out of a hospital with the dead body of his newborn. The latter spent 25 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. His dad could not afford to pay the $2,500<em> <\/em>medical bill. In order to get the dead body of his child, he left his own car to the hospital (in guarantee). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Arabic-speaking <em>An Nahar<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VXJqB9\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VXJqB9<\/a>), the Director of the hospital reported not having asked for this guarantee. Maybe he did not ask specifically, but he was certainly willing to take it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The saddest part of this story is this dad&#8217;s grief (along with the extent of misery of the people of Lebanon). If Bambi may, she would like to offer this Lebanese father her condolences, along with Ms. Linda Lemay&#8217;s French song entitled &#8220;<em>Pas de mots&#8221;<\/em> [&#8220;<em>There are no words<\/em>&#8220;]: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>&#8230;<\/strong><em><strong>There is no term to describe the father. The one who tucks his boy into the graveyard. Never a single poet. Never a single pastor. Never a single author. Had enough letters for so much pain&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lynda Lemay - Pas de mot\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gQruS9wr-UE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heart-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22882\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heart-8.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heart-8-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 85vw, 186px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture above shows a citizen from Northern Lebanon (Akkar) walking out of a hospital with the dead body of his newborn. The latter spent 25 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. His dad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22884,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22878\/revisions\/22884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}