{"id":68496,"date":"2024-12-25T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/you-learn-to-live-with-the-pain-20-years-after-the-boxing-day-tsunami-australian-couple-remember-son-paul"},"modified":"2024-12-25T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T14:00:17","slug":"you-learn-to-live-with-the-pain-20-years-after-the-boxing-day-tsunami-australian-couple-remember-son-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68496","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You learn to live with the pain\u2019: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, Australian couple remember son Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe and Evanna Giardina treasure memories of the affectionate 16-year-old they dubbed the \u2018love machine\u2019, who died in the 2004 disaster<\/p>\n<p>At first, there seemed nothing to be afraid of. Joe Giardina, his wife, Evanna, and their 16-year-old son, Paul, were taking in the picture-perfect waters of Patong bay as they ate breakfast in their Phuket beachfront hotel on Boxing Day morning in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were admiring the view and all of a sudden the water disappeared,\u201d says Giardina, 67, speaking from his home in Rosanna, Victoria. The water level had dropped so quickly that fish were floundering on the exposed seabed. But rather than sensing any threat, curious onlookers made their way to the beach. \u201cThe locals thought, \u2018This is fantastic.\u2019 They were running around picking the fish up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/you-learn-to-live-with-the-pain-20-years-after-the-boxing-day-tsunami-australian-couple-remember-son-paul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe and Evanna Giardina treasure memories of the affectionate 16-year-old they dubbed the \u2018love machine\u2019, who died in the 2004 disasterAt first, there seemed nothing to be afraid of. Joe Giardina, his wife, Evanna, and their 16-year-old son, Paul, were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3894,"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":[41,43,3210,1709,93,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-indian-ocean-tsunami-2004","category-natural-disasters","category-thailand","category-tsunamis"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68496","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\/3894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68496\/revisions\/68497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}