{"id":2584,"date":"2018-02-15T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T20:12:10","slug":"nigerian-girls-sustained-by-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian girls sustained by the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NoSpacing\">How did they survive? The Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. Some of 276 who were taken were killed. A few escaped. A group of 103 were ransomed last year, and they now live at American University of Nigeria. The <a title=\"Nigerian girls sustained by the Word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/first-look-how-nigerias-kidnapped-schoolgirls-are-rebuilding-their-lives-1517584918\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #00b0f0;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"NoSpacing\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt;\">\u201cA year ago, most of these young women were focused on survival\u2014eating grass to quell their hunger, sleeping on bare ground near snakes and scorpions, sharing whispered Bible passages in defiance of their captors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NoSpacing\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt;\">\u00a0\u201cSome spent much of their time memorizing lengthy prayers and hymns. Others composed diary entries in their heads\u2014their thoughts, injustices they suffered\u2014they would later log in journals they kept hidden. In secret, they retold the story of Job, the biblical figure who was punished in a test of his faith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did they survive? The Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. Some of 276 who were taken were killed. A few escaped. A group of 103 were ransomed last year, and they now live at American University of Nigeria. The Wall Street Journal reports: \u201cA year ago, most of these young [&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-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}