{"id":4115,"date":"2010-09-29T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:13:20","slug":"a-hug-and-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/a-hug-and-a-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"A hug and a punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok I have debated about posting this for a few reasons.<\/p>\n<p>1.  It&#8217;s not my style of music.  <\/p>\n<p>2.  I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says, because most of us adopt for selfish reasons just as much as for our desire to save a child.<\/p>\n<p>3.  We didn&#8217;t adopt Eva as our ticket into heaven.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do want to make sure that just because our adoption is complete- doesn&#8217;t mean that I need to get comfortable with it all.  There are still so many children out there that need homes.  <\/p>\n<p>And while I know my chances of talking Andy into doing it again are slim to none (and lets face it, 5 would probably make me even more crazy than I am now- and I know he doesn&#8217;t want a crazy wife)  I do want to keep fresh in my head that there are still children out there.  And if I can help educate or help anyone else out there that has adoption in their heads or hearts, well maybe that is what I am supposed to be doing now.<\/p>\n<p>One less orphan is not a new term by any means in the adoption world.  But every time I hear it I stop and think.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, One Less.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15064039\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15064039\">One Less by Matthew West (The Story Behind The Song)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3148354\">emicmg<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok I have debated about posting this for a few reasons. 1. It&#8217;s not my style of music. 2. I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says, because most of us adopt for selfish reasons just as much as for our desire to save a child. 3. We didn&#8217;t adopt Eva as our ticket into heaven. However, I do want to make sure that just because our adoption is complete- doesn&#8217;t mean that I need to get comfortable with it all. There are still so many children out there that need homes. And while I know my chances of talking Andy into doing it again are slim to none (and lets face it, 5 would probably make me even more crazy than I am now- and I know he doesn&#8217;t want a crazy wife) I do want to keep fresh in my head that there are still children out there. And if I can help educate or help anyone else out there that has adoption in their heads or hearts, well maybe that is what I am supposed to be doing now. One less orphan is not a new term by any means in the adoption world. But every time I hear it I stop and think. Yes, One Less. One Less by Matthew West (The Story Behind The Song) from emicmg on Vimeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-one-less"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21161,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/21161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}