{"id":56692,"date":"2018-03-16T03:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56692"},"modified":"2018-03-16T03:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T03:40:37","slug":"couple-adopting-four-siblings-who-wanted-to-stay-together-moves-the-judge-to-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/03\/16\/couple-adopting-four-siblings-who-wanted-to-stay-together-moves-the-judge-to-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple adopting four siblings who wanted to stay together moves the judge to tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015,\u00a0Phyllis and Eric Watson of Gardner got their licences to adopt. A day after, the adoption agency got in touch with the couple asking them if they&#8217;d be willing to adopt four siblings who wanted to stay together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thinking one foster child at a time. Maybe two? We weren\u2019t thinking four at once,\u201d said Eric Watson.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a matter of three days, the decision was made and two and a half years later,\u00a0the family made the adoptions official in what Judge Kathleen L. Sloan called \u201cthe best hearing that any judge gets to have in the United States&#8221; and even moved her to tears.<\/p>\n<p>Alisia, 17; Bradley, 16; Cody, 15; and Emma, 11, became Watsons \u2014 color-coordinated in their khaki skirts and slacks.\u00a0The children came from an Overland Park home where the marriage failed early and substance abuse and neglect followed.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article204897229.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article204897229.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015,\u00a0Phyllis and Eric Watson of Gardner got their licences to adopt. A day after, the adoption agency got in touch with the couple asking them if they&#8217;d be willing to adopt four siblings who wanted to stay together. \u201cWe were thinking one foster child at a time. Maybe two? We weren\u2019t thinking four at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}