{"id":7134,"date":"2009-02-17T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2009-02-17T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:54:51","slug":"agonizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/agonizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Agonizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was intrigued by Adam&#8217;s link:  <a href=\"http:\/\/bedejournal.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/uks-adoption-scandal.html\">&#8220;Legitimacy is the most precious resource of the state and should not be frittered away like this.&#8221;<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a parent of three and it isn&#8217;t so hard for me to imagine my own &#8220;B&#8221; in a similar scrape.  I can&#8217;t even wrap my mind around what it would be like for Texas to give my kids to strangers.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time . . . my husband and I have been considering adopting.  Another thing I can&#8217;t wrap my mind around is an adoption that would never be really and truly finalized.  Would you, could you, have adoptive children sealed to you in a situation like that?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got no good answers here.  Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was intrigued by Adam&#8217;s link: &#8220;Legitimacy is the most precious resource of the state and should not be frittered away like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}