{"id":2220,"date":"2011-02-17T21:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2011\/02\/17\/adoption-all-around\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:46:38","slug":"adoption-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2011\/02\/17\/adoption-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption All Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that everywhere I turn people I know are adopting, in the process of adopting or considering adoption.&#160; Adoption is something Ben and I talked about long before we got married and hope to still one day bring home a little one who needs a home.&#160; Now is just not the time for us!<\/p>\n<p>However, it is the time for my dear friend Lara and her sweet family.&#160; They just turned in their adoption papers for the DR Congo and are beginning to think through fundraising ideas.&#160; Today she posted about their first idea.&#160; You can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/fromakindergartenteachersdesk.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/piece-of-our-hearts.html\">here<\/a>.&#160; Would you consider helping a good friend bring home their sweet baby by purchasing one of their Africa magnets with a heart where DR Congo is located (or a hair clip, key chain, pin)?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"288\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that everywhere I turn people I know are adopting, in the process of adopting or considering adoption.&#160; Adoption is something Ben and I talked about long before we got married and hope to still one day bring home a little one who needs a home.&#160; Now is just not the time for us! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,21],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-africa","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}