{"id":93,"date":"2006-11-19T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T04:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/national-adoption-day\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T03:09:26","slug":"national-adoption-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/national-adoption-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Adoption Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaladoptionday.org\/2006\/index.asp\">National Adoption Day<\/a>, an annual event to raise awareness about the hundreds of thousands of children in foster care.  Several cities throughout the country celebrate by setting up various courtrooms and organizing judges and attorneys to help finalize adoptions.  I was invited by someone I work with to attend the court hearing to finalize the adoption of their son.  I was quite honored that they invited me to share in their special day.  There were hundreds of families there to finalize adoptions and provide loving and nurturing homes that these children need and deserve.  The coutrooms were decorated with stuffed animals (which were given to each child and sibling) and balloons, and there was tons of snacks, sweets, fruit, and ice cream for all to enjoy.  The judge in the hearing I went to was very kind and included the entire family, parents, grandparents, and siblings in the process, which was very touching.  I really enjoyed taking a part of this national celebration.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Yes, I am sad Wake Forest lost, but they still have a chance to make it to the ACC Championship by winning in Maryland next week.  GO DEACS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was National Adoption Day, an annual event to raise awareness about the hundreds of thousands of children in foster care. Several cities throughout the country celebrate by setting up various courtrooms and organizing judges and attorneys to help finalize adoptions. I was invited by someone I work with to attend the court hearing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}