{"id":2399,"date":"2014-06-08T21:29:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T01:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2014-06-08T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T01:29:46","slug":"wait-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"wait, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has done a far more excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/adoption.warrenmyers.com\/2014\/06\/big-news\">write-up<\/a><sup>*<\/sup> than I could hope to &#8211; but the short version is that I&#8217;m now a dad \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We got an out-of-the-blue call a couple weeks ago that there was a ~3 month old baby boy being put for adoption, and did we know anyone who would be able \/ want to adopt him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone&#8221;? Why yes, yes we did! Us!<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this week &#8211; after meetings with lawyers, updating our home study with our adoption agency, and more &#8211; we got <strong>The Call<\/strong>. The Call came that we could come to NY since birth mom was scheduled\u00a0to sign all of her paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gone on hold for a few months with regards to adopting from Ethiopia while we bond with our new fella &#8211; but that&#8217;s totally cool with us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>*<sub>please contact me privately for access to our other blog if you don&#8217;t remember the login<\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has done a far more excellent write-up* than I could hope to &#8211; but the short version is that I&#8217;m now a dad \ud83d\ude42 We got an out-of-the-blue call a couple weeks ago that there was a ~3 month old baby boy being put for adoption, and did we know anyone who would &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2399\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">wait, what?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,46],"tags":[69],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-update","tag-adoption"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}