{"id":553,"date":"2007-04-12T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=553"},"modified":"2007-04-12T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T16:39:00","slug":"adoption-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/04\/12\/adoption-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/list\/list.html\">Goal #105 Adopt a Child<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I visited with the social worker at the Cob\u00e1n Regional Hospital. My inquiry was related to the possibility of adoption of an abandoned baby. She said that as long as we are residents of Guatemala, get approved as foster parents and are willing to pay the legal fees, it shouldn&#8217;t be difficult at all.<\/p>\n<p>Everytime I visit the hospital with a team, there is a baby or two (or three or four or five) that has been abandoned by his mother. Everytime, I experience a sharp pang of fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p>So, in a year or so, we will likely pursue this opportunity to make our family greater&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and I&#8217;ll be able to cross #105 off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goal #105 Adopt a Child Yesterday, I visited with the social worker at the Cob\u00e1n Regional Hospital. My inquiry was related to the possibility of adoption of an abandoned baby. She said that as long as we are residents of Guatemala, get approved as foster parents and are willing to pay the legal fees, it &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/04\/12\/adoption-possibilities\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-553","6":"format-standard","7":"category-family","8":"category-fatherhood","9":"category-guatemala","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}