{"id":2933,"date":"2010-01-21T06:41:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2010-01-21T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:41:46","slug":"repostsamuel-dalembert-back-from-haiti-with-a-heavy-heart-truehoop-blog-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/repostsamuel-dalembert-back-from-haiti-with-a-heavy-heart-truehoop-blog-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart &#8211; TrueHoop Blog &#8211; ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just tears your heart down to pieces. With a lot of us working in High Rise Buildings, and some are even living in very High Condominiums , I fear for how disastrous a very strong earthquake would be for us. Hope we can help Haiti.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He cries talking about what he found there. For instance children without parents, wandering in desperation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing my best,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take another trip with UNICEF. So we can try to get all those children out there &#8230; you know, we have parents who have been trying to adopt for two or three years.&#8221;<br \/>\nAt this point, tears are streaming down Dalembert&#8217;s face. &#8220;You know and &#8230; that&#8217;s frustrating me &#8230; you&#8217;re asking people to help. And kids have parents over there who want to adopt them. I&#8217;ve got a hundred parents, and you have a bunch of guys sitting down with the freaking papers. All it takes is one hour to go over everything, you know what I&#8217;m saying?<br \/>\n&#8220;I saw somebody&#8217;s leg amputated in front of me. Surgeries performed on a kitchen table &#8230; I&#8217;m talking about a folding kitchen table &#8230; I have some disturbing pictures. And it hurts. &#8230; There was no surgery room &#8230; You heard him screaming. &#8230; Not enough alcohol. Things we take for granted, you know. They try to make one bottle of alcohol last.<br \/>\n&#8220;Problems just keep occurring. There&#8217;s no machinery to move things around. It&#8217;s taking a long time to locate the people. I know everybody is doing their best. &#8230; It&#8217;s crazy over there.<br \/>\n&#8220;One thing really touched my heart the most is all the children. A lot of homeless children.&#8221;<br \/>\nDalembert says he and Medishare are in the process of negotiating to get tents for &#8220;a ton&#8221; of people in Haiti.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/truehoop\/post\/_\/id\/12461\/samuel-dalembert-back-from-haiti-with-a-heavy-heart\">Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart &#8211; TrueHoop Blog &#8211; ESPN<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just tears your heart down to pieces. With a lot of us working in High Rise Buildings, and some are even living in very High Condominiums , I fear for how disastrous a very strong earthquake would be for us. Hope we can help Haiti. He cries talking about what he found there. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/repostsamuel-dalembert-back-from-haiti-with-a-heavy-heart-truehoop-blog-espn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart &#8211; TrueHoop Blog &#8211; ESPN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}