{"id":15889,"date":"2026-05-04T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:43:01","slug":"a-journey-of-grace-reuniting-with-my-niece-after-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15889","title":{"rendered":"A Journey of Grace: Reuniting With My Niece After Foster Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Journey of Grace: Reuniting With My Niece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After my sister died, her seven-year-old daughter had nowhere to go. I wanted to take her in, but my husband said we weren\u2019t ready. Torn between them, I let her enter foster care\u2014and carried guilt for years.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years later, she returned. No longer a scared child, but a confident young woman raised by a loving family. She didn\u2019t come with anger, but forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>In that moment, I learned: while we can\u2019t change the past, forgiveness can heal it\u2014and love can still find its way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Journey of Grace: Reuniting With My Niece After my sister died, her seven-year-old daughter had nowhere to go. I wanted to take her in, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15889\" title=\"A Journey of Grace: Reuniting With My Niece After Foster Care\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15891,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions\/15891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}