{"id":4019,"date":"2009-06-02T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2009-06-02T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:15:15","slug":"the-family-tree-stops-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"The family tree stops here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I saw someone in a park in San Francisco wearing a tee shirt with a tree icon and this sentence on it &#8211; The Family Tree Stops Here! It rubbed me the wrong way when I saw it, like it was too strong, too much an ending with no beginning. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve heard about a possible baby being born on August 1st, and we&#8217;re going to see another new adoption attorney who has delivered well to others. <\/p>\n<p>I no longer wonder why I couldn&#8217;t have children myself. Today, driving to yoga I mused about how it might be a good thing the family tree stopped here. A father who practiced medicine with a bogus license, an alcoholic mother, a criminal genius for a brother, another who hired David Duke as a business partner, another drug addicted sibling, on and on the family tree is rather, um, disconcerting? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I saw someone in a park in San Francisco wearing a tee shirt with a tree icon and this sentence on it &#8211; The Family Tree Stops Here! It rubbed me the wrong way when I saw it, like it was too strong, too much an ending with no beginning. We&#8217;ve heard about a possible baby being born on August 1st, and we&#8217;re going to see another new adoption attorney who&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-12P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}