{"id":8273,"date":"2014-06-01T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:56:07","slug":"welcome-home-eli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8273","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home Eli!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8274\" alt=\"DSC_6406\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/142.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/142.jpg 640w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/142-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2007: God used the ShowHope presentation at a Steven Curtis Chapman Concert to stir my heart and Clint&#8217;s about adoption<\/p>\n<p>2008: Our daughter Emma was born and we learned what an exciting adventure it is to be a parent<\/p>\n<p>November 2010: We began the process of adopting a baby boy through Bethany Christian Services<\/p>\n<p>August 2013: We received a picture of our son and immediately accepted our referral<\/p>\n<p>March 2014: We found out that we would be traveling soon to meet our son Eli<\/p>\n<p>March 30, 2014: Boarded a plan to Ethiopia (Ethiopia Trip #1 blog <a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8220\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 1, 2014: Met our son Eli<\/p>\n<p>April 3, 2014: We officially adopted our son Eli<\/p>\n<p>May 6, 2014: Eli&#8217;s official GOTCHA DAY (Ethiopia Trip #2 blog <a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8244\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>May 9, 2014: Eli became a US Citizen in Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>Our family will never be the same&#8230;to God be the glory, great things He has done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007: God used the ShowHope presentation at a Steven Curtis Chapman Concert to stir my heart and Clint&#8217;s about adoption 2008: Our daughter Emma was born and we learned what an exciting adventure it is to be a parent November 2010: We began the process of adopting a baby boy through Bethany Christian Services August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37,12,16,32,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-eli","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}