{"id":5049,"date":"2014-01-15T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/finding-lost-family\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:44:01","slug":"finding-lost-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/finding-lost-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Lost Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/howe-kids.jpg' alt='Howe Kids' width='240' class='right' \/>Since my youngest granddaughter will be turning eighteen in March, I contacted the California Department of Social Services  in an attempt to locate her. To my surprise (noting the slowness of most California bureaucracies), there was a reply within an hour from when I sent the email; they wanted to know more information about the granddaughter in order to start the process. I sent the reply with the understanding that there would be a delay in locating her social worker and thence the child.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Not my grandchildren, but my maternal grandmother&#8217;s siblings &#8211; my great uncles and aunt when they were kids. Photo courtesy my sister a.k.a. the family historian.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last evening, the social worker called to inform me that my granddaughter had been located and she furnished her with my contact information. I expect to hear from her soon. <\/p>\n<p>The unexpected development is that I got an email this morning from one of my other granddaughters that wants to get in contact. A nice surprise, since I had no idea where she might be. She may give me a call later today.<\/p>\n<p>That makes me happy to be in contact with them after quite a long time (and a long story). Maybe one of these days we can see all three of them face to face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my youngest granddaughter will be turning eighteen in March, I contacted the California Department of Social Services in an attempt to locate her. To my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}