{"id":58486,"date":"2019-10-30T06:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58486"},"modified":"2019-10-30T06:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:43:33","slug":"this-single-dad-just-adopted-5-siblings-under-the-age-of-five-so-they-can-stay-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/10\/30\/this-single-dad-just-adopted-5-siblings-under-the-age-of-five-so-they-can-stay-together\/","title":{"rendered":"This single dad just adopted 5 siblings under the age of five so they can stay together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lamont Thomas, a man from Buffalo, NY, has fostered over 30 kids. The single dad recently became a father of twelve kids when he added five more to his brood &#8211; Zendaya, Jamel, Nakia, Major, and Michaela &#8211; aged 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children had been separated for more than a year-and-a-half and had spent time in four different homes in four different cities before Thomas swooped in two years ago and took them in as foster children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I fought for close to two and a half years just to be able to get them together, and we won, we got it,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;I wanted to be the difference, make a difference by being a difference for these youth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3526\/Single-Dad-Adopts-5-Siblings-Under-5-So-They-Can-Stay-Together (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3526\/Single-Dad-Adopts-5-Siblings-Under-5-So-They-Can-Stay-Together\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3526\/Single-Dad-Adopts-5-Siblings-Under-5-So-They-Can-Stay-Together<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont Thomas, a man from Buffalo, NY, has fostered over 30 kids. The single dad recently became a father of twelve kids when he added five more to his brood &#8211; Zendaya, Jamel, Nakia, Major, and Michaela &#8211; aged 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. The children had been separated for more than a year-and-a-half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58486","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\/58486","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=58486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}