{"id":84,"date":"2008-10-15T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raymondwhiteside.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-10-15T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T21:02:33","slug":"about-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/2008\/10\/15\/about-my-family\/","title":{"rendered":"About my family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told you that I was adopted by a white family and that gave me advantages I wouldn&#8217;t have had otherwise.\u00a0 I want you to understand why I was put up for adoption.\u00a0 Adoption is not a bad thing.\u00a0 It can be when a mother is hooked on drugs and loves them more than her child or if the child is abused and taken away from the parents but that&#8217;s not my case at all.<\/p>\n<p>You see, my parents were young when I came along and they could barely take care of themselves and knew they could not give me what I needed.\u00a0 They knew this nice white couple that couldn&#8217;t have children of their own and they offered to adopt me.\u00a0 They allowed my natural parents to be a part of my life my whole life along with my natural family.\u00a0 I never felt that I was not wanted by either side.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to have two wonderful mothers and two wonderful fathers.\u00a0 I have more grandparents than most kids have cousins and am loved by all of them.\u00a0 My life has been blessed from the very beginning and I have passed all that love on to my own children who have a huge family backing them too.\u00a0 So you see, adoption can be a very loving thing to do for your child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you that I was adopted by a white family and that gave me advantages I wouldn&#8217;t have had otherwise.\u00a0 I want you to understand why I was put up for adoption.\u00a0 Adoption is not a bad thing.\u00a0 It can be when a mother is hooked on drugs and loves them more than her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/2008\/10\/15\/about-my-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About my family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,13,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-lifestyle","category-friends-family","category-holidays-celebrations","category-just-my-opinion","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}