{"id":1619,"date":"2017-03-29T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:15:27","slug":"they-adopted-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"They adopted nine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am painting a new third floor addition to a house just up the street. \u00a0A young couple has added this rather large addition for the wife&#8217;s parents when they visit &#8212; with their nine adopted children! \u00a0The daughter told me her mom had three biological children, then was told she couldn&#8217;t have any more because of physical complications. \u00a0So instead she and her husband have made nine international adoptions of kids in need from multiple countries. \u00a0The last adoption was of three Bulgarian siblings who were about to be separated, \u00a0&#8220;My mom couldn&#8217;t have that,&#8221; said the daughter. \u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0What a better world this would be with more of these adoptions, in tandem with way more Americans financially adopting children (through <strong>Compassion International,<\/strong> and so on). \u00a0Yeah, we help more than most countries &#8212; BUT WE COULD HELP <em>SO<\/em> MUCH MORE! \u00a0In fact, I graphically point this out in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/foreign-policy\">foreign affairs position paper.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am painting a new third floor addition to a house just up the street. \u00a0A young couple has added this rather large addition for the wife&#8217;s parents when they visit &#8212; with their nine adopted children! \u00a0The daughter told <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1619\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}