{"id":36,"date":"2010-04-23T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosorphans.wordpress.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-03-27T23:42:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T06:42:44","slug":"street-children-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/street-children-of-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Children of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at the lives of street children in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sunergosinternational.org\/orphan_story.aspx\">Russian Street Children<\/a> &#8211; Click to Watch the video.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em>Misha&#8217;s Story<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em>A boy runs away  from the orphanage, just to make soup for his mother.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em>Black rubber shoes, a few sizes too big, dusty feet, gray  shorts and t-shirt, skinny body and huge kind eyes \u2013 this is our Misha.\u00a0  Two years ago his alcoholic mother was denied parental rights.\u00a0 The 12  year old boy was placed in an orphanage, 60 miles from home.\u00a0 Throughout  these 2 years, Misha has run away 20 times from the orphanage and  walked home on the highway \u2013 just to feed his mother\u2026<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em>Each time the police find him and return him to the  orphanage.\u00a0 Sometimes the boy steals or tries to make some money, all  for his mother.\u00a0 He says that he loves her very much and cannot live so  far away.\u00a0 On the money, somehow earned, he buys groceries and takes it  to his mother.\u00a0 To an apartment full of smoke and a mother who is always  drunk.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em>He takes a pot, fills it with water, and peals some  potatoes.\u00a0 Makes soup, washes the floor and dishes.\u00a0 Then he sits his  mother at the table and helps her eat her dinner.\u00a0 Misha, crying, asks  her not to drink anymore.\u00a0 His mother ignores him, just as constantly as  he takes care of her.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s all my fault,\u201d the boy says.\u00a0 \u201cI got  into the wrong group of friends, started running away from home.\u00a0 That\u2019s  why I was taken to an orphanage.\u00a0 It\u2019s great there, we go fishing,  swimming.\u00a0 But I want to be close to my mother and I know she wants that  too\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at the lives of street children in Russia. Russian Street Children &#8211; Click to Watch the video. Misha&#8217;s Story A boy runs away from the orphanage, just to make soup for his mother. Black rubber shoes, a few sizes too big, dusty feet, gray shorts and t-shirt, skinny body and huge kind eyes \u2013 this is our Misha.\u00a0 Two years ago his alcoholic mother was denied parental rights.\u00a0 The 12 year old boy was placed in an orphanage, 60 miles from home.\u00a0 Throughout these 2 years, Misha has run away 20 times from the orphanage and walked \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/street-children-of-russia\/\"> 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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,79],"tags":[32,33,38,41,51,54,57,66],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunergos-ministry","category-teams-2","tag-ministry","tag-missions","tag-orphans","tag-russia","tag-st-petersburg","tag-street-kids","tag-sunergos","tag-teams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j3in-A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}