{"id":122,"date":"2011-02-28T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casashalom.net\/potters\/?p=122"},"modified":"2012-05-16T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:53:05","slug":"alex-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Alex Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_403\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=403\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"alex4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/alex4-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Alex in 2004<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alex came to Casa Shalom when he was about 1 year old in 2004. \u00a0Here\u2019s a picture of him shortly after arriving at the home. His name is actually Julio Cesar Agusto, but we didn\u2019t receive any information about him when he first came. \u00a0So he was given the name Alex, and it\u2019s stuck ever since. He\u2019s always been such a special kid, and I\u2019ve always looked forward to seeing him when I would come to visit in the past.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 there was a really good chance that Alex was going to be adopted by an American, but Guatemala was going through a time of restructuring their department that handles adoptions to try to eliminate the corruption that existed. \u00a0So they stopped all adoptions for a while. \u00a0Unfortunately because of these changes (and I\u2019m not exactly sure what happened), Alex was never adopted.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s grown up in at Casa Shalom ever since, and he\u2019s now 7 and in the second grade. Alex got pretty sick back in January, and so Yuli and I visited him to pray with him and we told him that when he was better, he was going to come stay with us for a weekend. \u00a0Well, he\u2019s now better, and we had a wonderful weekend with him! \u00a0We had so much fun together, and we were impressed with how helpful he wanted to be and help us cook and clean up after eating. \u00a0We had such a great time with him that our first thought was:\u00a0<em>when can he come stay with us again???<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few pictures from our weekend together:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_402\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=402\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"alex3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/alex3-535x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Together at Casa Shalom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=400\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"alex1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/alex1-535x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Alex helping make pancakes on Saturday morning<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_401\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=401\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"alex2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/alex2-535x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Eating lunch with Yuli&#8217;s nephew<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex in 2004 Alex came to Casa Shalom when he was about 1 year old in 2004. \u00a0Here\u2019s a picture of him shortly after arriving at the home. His name is actually Julio Cesar Agusto, but we didn\u2019t receive any information about him when he first came. \u00a0So he was given the name Alex, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alex Visits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tws0-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}