{"id":104,"date":"2010-01-22T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-01-22T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:24:09","slug":"empty-cradles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/2010\/01\/22\/empty-cradles\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Cradles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In view of the &#8216;migrant children&#8217; being in the forefront of theis week&#8217;s news, I recommend the following title as a &#8216;must read&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Empty Cradles Margaret Humphreys.<br \/>\nCorgi Books ISBN 0 552 14164X \u00a39.99<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Humphreys travelled thousands of miles and spent long hours searching through births, marriages and deaths. Her purpose? To help child migrants make contact with their roots.<br \/>\nA shocking story, one we might have expected to read about in a Dickens novel. That these children were shipped out, the last as recently as 1967, left me speechless.<\/p>\n<p>From the cover: \u201cEmpty Cradles is a strong indictment of government, as well as charitable and religious organisations. It is a sad harrowing story that will move the reader to anger and tears. Yet it offers a message of hope to all victims of a shameful scandal that has been ignored too long.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"profile64\">\n<dt>Catriona<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the &#8216;migrant children&#8217; being in the forefront of theis week&#8217;s news, I recommend the following title as a &#8216;must read&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Empty Cradles Margaret Humphreys. Corgi Books ISBN 0 552 14164X \u00a39.99<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Humphreys travelled thousands of miles and spent long hours searching through births, marriages and deaths. Her purpose? To help child [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-a-book","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}