{"id":1187,"date":"2025-11-04T22:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:34:40","slug":"a-journey-of-grace-reuniting-with-my-niece-after-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"A Journey of Grace: Reuniting With My Niece After Foster Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">When my sister died, her 7-year-old daughter faced foster care. I begged my husband to take her in; he hesitated, fearing the burden. His refusal stung. Torn, I let her go. Guilt shadowed me for years\u2014missed birthdays, unspoken apologies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Fourteen years later, a poised young woman knocked. Those gentle eyes\u2014my niece, now 21. She\u2019d thrived with loving foster parents, chased dreams, chosen forgiveness over resentment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">My husband\u2019s regret mirrored mine. We listened, tears falling, as she spoke of curiosity, not anger. She didn\u2019t need us to fix the past; she offered a future.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">We embraced, hearts mending. Love, delayed but unbroken, circled back. Forgiveness unlocked the door guilt had sealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my sister died, her 7-year-old daughter faced foster care. I begged my husband to take her in; he hesitated, fearing the burden. His refusal stung. Torn, I let her go. Guilt shadowed me for years\u2014missed birthdays, unspoken apologies. Fourteen years later, a poised young woman knocked. Those gentle eyes\u2014my niece, now 21. She\u2019d thrived &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}