{"id":19268,"date":"2019-02-19T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19268"},"modified":"2019-02-19T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:19:26","slug":"one-taught-english-in-singapore-the-other-a-former-drug-addict-malaysian-hiv-positive-couple-show-love-is-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/one-taught-english-in-singapore-the-other-a-former-drug-addict-malaysian-hiv-positive-couple-show-love-is-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"One taught English in Singapore, the other a former drug addict: Malaysian HIV-positive couple show love is resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_pictrure_780x520_\/public\/articles\/2019\/02\/19\/sl_hiv_190219_87.jpg?itok=fHIfWIKg&amp;timestamp=1550556583\" alt=\"Mr Rosli Ismail first met Ms Rahayu Rahmat and her children in 2009 when she was looking for potential clients along the dodgy backstreets of Johor Baru.\" \/><span class=\"caption-text\">Mr Rosli Ismail first met Ms Rahayu Rahmat and her children in 2009 when she was looking for potential clients along the dodgy backstreets of Johor Baru.<\/span><span class=\"caption-credit\">ST PHOTO: ATIKAH AMALINA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ms Rahayu Rahmat was not feeling well that particular morning. Something someone said the other night was still haunting her.<\/p>\n<p>Being HIV-positive, the 49-year-old mother of four was used to getting nasty remarks from strangers. But that doesn&#8217;t mean it still doesn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Lying in bed, gloomy and slightly broken, she suddenly caught a sniff of something burned. She turned over to look and there he was, her husband Rosli Ismail, holding a plate of charred toast and eggs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/se-asia\/one-taught-english-in-singapore-the-other-a-former-drug-addict-malaysian-hiv-couple\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Mr Rosli Ismail first met Ms Rahayu Rahmat and her children in 2009 when she was looking for potential clients along the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}