{"id":47,"date":"2008-07-09T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T21:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-08-11T23:16:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T05:16:55","slug":"the-adoption-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The Adoption Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following was written by Rachel and Kassidy from Indiana (who also happen to be sisters-in-law):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the first four days of our Bolivian lives we were all orphans.  It wasn\u00b4t until Sunday that we were claimed, one set of siblings at a time.  The first to leave were Grael and Sara L.  It was a sad process, like our group was being divided forever.  In reality we would all work together the very next day.  We all got claimed until there were only 2 left&#8211;the 2 youngest, ironically.  As each sibling set was claimed, we took turns doing crazy things for send-off.  We created a tunnel to send Kirsten, Alyssa and Margo off.  Sad lonely faces for Grael and Sara L.  Group hug for Sara M.  Amanda tried to run after us when Rachel and I (Kassidy) were adopted.  The youngest had to wait another hour before a family decided to claim them.  Being in new places with complete strangers gives you the option to build walls or drop them.  We\u00b4ve chosen to drop ours and the benefits are wonderful.  Life in Bolivia is great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following was written by Rachel and Kassidy from Indiana (who also happen to be sisters-in-law): For the first four days of our Bolivian lives we were all orphans. It wasn\u00b4t until Sunday that we were claimed, one set of siblings at a time. The first to leave were Grael and Sara L. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walczakphotography.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}