{"id":20,"date":"2006-12-28T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/descansos.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/baby-grace\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T13:11:00","slug":"baby-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/baby-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been this story in the newspapers that is still gnawing at me.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov 20, a baby girl, named Baby Grace by investigators, was found in a construction dumpster &#8211; umbilical cord still attached. The first thing I thought was &#8220;how can anyone just dump a baby like a pile of trash?&#8221; But this thought came from anger and a sense that &#8220;where has our humanity gone?&#8221; I realize that these are negative thoughts and are judgemental. I don&#8217;t know anything about the mother &#038; what could be going on in her world. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe she is a teen mother who felt all alone in this world &#038; maybe she was scared of being responsible for a baby&#8217;s life. Maybe she was scared to death! What would her parents do to her if they found out!? Maybe the mother is an adult who is in danger herself. I have no clue therefore cannot judge at all! Only God can do that.<\/p>\n<p>But I cannot help being drawn to this little girl&#8217;s story. I still cannot get over being angry &#038; sad for what happened to her. <\/p>\n<p>I have this need to do something about it. I don&#8217;t know what I can do for this little girl, but I do have this need to restore my faith in humanity. And maybe in doing so I can bring dignity to her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been this story in the newspapers that is still gnawing at me. On Nov 20, a baby girl, named Baby Grace by investigators, was found in a construction dumpster &#8211; umbilical cord still attached. The first thing I thought was &#8220;how can anyone just dump a baby like a pile of trash?&#8221; But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,15,9,5,23,21],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anger","tag-babygrace","tag-grief","tag-hope","tag-judgement","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}