{"id":812,"date":"2016-05-03T18:19:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/?p=812"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T18:20:29","slug":"happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/happy-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On Sunday, May 8, 2016, over 122.5 million people will pick up a phone and call their Mom. In the United States, the first Sunday in May is dedicated to recognizing mothers. Maisha would like to honor all the Maisha Moms around the world.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Motherhood, as defined by Dictionary.com, means \u201cthe state of being a mother\u201d or \u201cthe qualities or spirit of a mother.\u201d Being a mother means something different to everyone, depending on their culture, their beliefs and their personal experience.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers everywhere deal with different circumstances and challenges. However, many things are the same. All mothers want the best for their children and sacrifice to ensure their children have the opportunity to succeed. We recognize these hallmarks of motherhood and celebrate them this Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/useruploads\/images\/blog\/mothersday5.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/useruploads\/images\/blog\/mothersday1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Maisha Project allows children to have the benefit of many mothers \u2013 biological mothers, village mamas, sponsor moms, host moms, spiritual moms\u2026 The mothers are able to work together to provide for the child financially, emotionally, physically, culturally and spiritually. We are incredibly thankful for all our biological moms who live on ground and strive to create better lives for their children. We are also thankful for our other moms who step in and assist the biological mom by paying school fees, praying for their child, sending letters and all the other mom duties that are done in the course of raising a child.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/useruploads\/images\/blog\/mothersday2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/useruploads\/images\/blog\/mothersday3.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maisha means life. We are thankful for the women who give birth to life and allow us to share their children\u2019s lives with them. Happy Mother\u2019s Day to all our Maisha Moms. You are changing the world one child at a time!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, May 8, 2016, over 122.5 million people will pick up a phone and call their Mom. In the United States, the first Sunday in May is dedicated to recognizing mothers. Maisha would like to honor all the Maisha Moms around the world. &nbsp; Motherhood, as defined by Dictionary.com, means \u201cthe state of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}