{"id":476,"date":"2020-12-15T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/?p=476"},"modified":"2020-12-15T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:16:30","slug":"grandpa-vasile-eltera-report-1-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa Vasile \u2013 Eltera Report #1\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-473 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eltera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3692-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We found <strong>Grandpa Vasile<\/strong> reading from the Bible by a stove where no wood was burning. Mutulica rushed to show me that there was no firewood in the padlocked shed.<\/p>\n<p>I then learned that the old man had worked all his life without a contract, and now, at 72, he has no pension and no other income.<\/p>\n<p>So, we created a pension for him. Because we value Grandpa Vasile&#8217;s dignity, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll call this monthly allowance that we want to give him for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, we brought his first pension. With joy and frozen hands, we handed him a pen. He, teary-eyed, searched for the place where he had to sign. I also asked him for his ID, just like the officials do, and then handed him the envelope with his first &#8220;pension&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-474 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eltera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3726-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found Grandpa Vasile reading from the Bible by a stove where no wood was burning. Mutulica rushed to show me that there was no firewood in the padlocked shed. I then learned that the old man had worked all his life without a contract, and now, at 72, he has no pension and no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eltera.org\/?p=476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grandpa Vasile \u2013 Eltera Report #1\/2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-1-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}