{"id":6214,"date":"2024-09-26T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T01:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2024-09-26T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T01:04:05","slug":"open-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/09\/26\/open-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Arms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When I took the online family DNA test for fun, I didn\u2019t expect to find out I have a sister. After I read the results, I confronted my mom, and she admitted the truth that she gave birth to a daughter before she met and married my dad. My heart ached knowing all these years I could\u2019ve had a sister and didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m driving on the parkway, the radio blaring. In fifteen minutes, I\u2019ll be at Cassie\u2019s house. The big sister I didn\u2019t grow up with and meeting for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Will she welcome me with open arms?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took the online family DNA test for fun, I didn\u2019t expect to find out I have a sister. After I read the results, I confronted my mom, and she admitted the truth that she gave birth to a daughter before she met and married my dad. My heart ached knowing all these years [&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":[12927,1052,1024,1352,12925,614,8976,749,2103,1023,8175,12926,2570,6372,548,708],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-big-sister","tag-birth","tag-dad","tag-daughter","tag-dna-test","tag-family","tag-first-time","tag-heart","tag-house","tag-mom","tag-open-arms","tag-parkway","tag-radio","tag-results","tag-sister","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","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=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}