{"id":218771,"date":"2010-01-23T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2010-01-23T20:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:40:50","slug":"haitian-orphan-adoptive-parents-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218771","title":{"rendered":"Haitian Orphan Adoptive Parents Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9458\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 330px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9458\" title=\"joshlizdaby-2\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/01\/joshlizdaby-2-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"Haiti Adoptive Parents wait at airport\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haiti Adoptive Parents wait at airport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After several grueling days of waiting for clearance from the US State Department, and Haitian and American officials, a handful of adoptive parents will be able to hold their children tonight.<\/p>\n<p>79 orphans from the House of God&#8217;s Children Orphanage buckled up in jump seats and in the laps of caregivers aboard a C-17 military aircraft at the Port-au-Prince airport this afternoon.\u00a0 The children were handed earplugs and water, and after getting everyone strapped in, the precious cargo was up in the air and headed for Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida.\u00a0 That is where at least 20 adoptive families are anxiously standing by&#8230; including Josh and Liz Daby from Rochester, New York who have been in the process of adopting\u00a0 a 3 1\/2 year old little girl named Marie, and a 2 1\/2 year old boy named Johnny.\u00a0 After the Daby children make it through customs they will head to a hotel for their first overnight sleepover in America.\u00a0 Josh and Liz Daby have toys for the kids, including a &#8220;My Little Pony&#8221; for Marie, and some &#8220;Matchbox&#8221; cars for Johnny, new clothes and then it will be off to the hotel to bed for well deserved night of rest.\u00a0\u00a0 The legal paper work isn&#8217;t over yet &#8211; there is a lot more to get through, but the Dabys say they are thankful the hardst part, getting them out safely, is now over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti Adoptive Parents wait at airport After several grueling days of waiting for clearance from the US State Department, and Haitian and American officials, a handful of adoptive parents will be able to hold their children tonight. 79 orphans from the House of God&#8217;s Children Orphanage buckled up in jump seats and in the laps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}