{"id":153676,"date":"2018-12-16T18:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=153676"},"modified":"2018-12-16T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T18:18:50","slug":"amputee-adel-sleiman-begins-march-from-tartous-to-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=153676","title":{"rendered":"Amputee Adel Sleiman begins march from Tartous to Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tartous, SANA \u2013 With one leg and substantial will, amputee Adel Sleiman began a march from the Governorate building in Tartous city to the Umayyad Square in Damascus, in an initiative seeking to prove that Syrians are still standing fast despite all difficulties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sleiman-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-153677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sleiman-2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sleiman-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sleiman-2-310x205.jpg 310w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sleiman-2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to journalists before beginning the march on Saturday, Sleiman said that with this initiative, he wants to send a message to fellow injured people saying that they still have a lot to give and they can continue their lives with stronger determination.<\/p>\n<p>He saluted the members of the Syrian Arab Army on the battlefield, saying &#8220;we all proved that no-one can undermine the Syrian people&#8217;s strength, steadfastness, determination, national unity, and determination to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sleiman was injured in the line of duty in 2015 when he was fighting terrorists in Atman area in Daraa province, causing the amputation of his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tartous, SANA \u2013 With one leg and substantial will, amputee Adel Sleiman began a march from the Governorate building in Tartous city to the Umayyad Square in Damascus, in an initiative seeking to prove that Syrians are still standing fast despite all difficulties. In a statement to journalists before beginning the march on Saturday, Sleiman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115],"tags":[18981,1211],"class_list":["post-153676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","tag-amputee","tag-injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}