{"id":15543,"date":"2020-03-08T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/08\/brutalised-but-defiant-christchurch-massacre-survivors-one-year-on"},"modified":"2020-03-08T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:00:14","slug":"brutalised-but-defiant-christchurch-massacre-survivors-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15543","title":{"rendered":"Brutalised but defiant: Christchurch massacre survivors one year on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the first anniversary of the atrocity that shocked New Zealand looms, victims struggle with enduring trauma \u2013 but also carry a sense of hope<\/p>\n<p>At first, Hisham al Zarzour couldn\u2019t remember what had happened. Later, he tried to forget. Lying beneath the bodies of other worshippers at Al Noor mosque in Christchurch last March as a gunman fired again and again, he prayed that Allah would send him back to Syria to die.<\/p>\n<p>There, war had been a way of life. Chaos became normal. But the violence in peaceful New Zealand came just seven months after the sleepy, leafy city had become his home. That something so barbaric could happen in his place of refuge was unbearable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/08\/brutalised-but-defiant-christchurch-massacre-survivors-one-year-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first anniversary of the atrocity that shocked New Zealand looms, victims struggle with enduring trauma \u2013 but also carry a sense of hopeAt first, Hisham al Zarzour couldn\u2019t remember what had happened. Later, he tried to forget. Lying beneath the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15544,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543\/revisions\/15544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}