{"id":3739,"date":"2019-11-27T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T01:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2019-11-27T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T01:53:05","slug":"what-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/11\/27\/what-family\/","title":{"rendered":"What Family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When I sat at my one-hundred-year-old mother\u2019s bedside, she told me I was adopted, that she couldn\u2019t die without telling me. I\u2019m seventy-three years old, what was the point when no family was left to answer my questions?<\/p>\n<p>I did a DNA test, and thought&#8211;what have I done?<\/p>\n<p>An e-mail appeared in my DNA account from Tom, who said he was a cousin. My parents were illiterate, poor and didn\u2019t know they signed me away permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Tom explained I was a victim of the Tennessee orphanage scandal, along with many victims.<\/p>\n<p>I deleted my account and never looked back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I sat at my one-hundred-year-old mother\u2019s bedside, she told me I was adopted, that she couldn\u2019t die without telling me. I\u2019m seventy-three years old, what was the point when no family was left to answer my questions? I did a DNA test, and thought&#8211;what have I done? An e-mail appeared in my DNA account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2988,8197,6617,2493,112,8389,41,5521,73,8391,649,1876,1908,8390,1161,7646,1660,1646],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-account","tag-bedside","tag-cousin","tag-die","tag-dna","tag-e-mail","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-mother","tag-orphanage","tag-parents","tag-questions","tag-scandal","tag-tennessee","tag-test","tag-the-point","tag-victim","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}