{"id":77,"date":"2009-05-26T19:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-05-26T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T02:09:50","slug":"more-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"more book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I Loved You<\/em> by Patricia Dreschler
\nThis is a story of open adoption written by the birthmother. \u00a0I have to confess that I skipped through and only read her story (it’s
\ninterspersed with essays about how she recommends that other people in her situation might deal with similar situations) and found it to be a
\nvery touching and encouraging story about how two families related to each other and became closer through their shared relationship with
\n[their] son. \u00a0An interesting insight for one way to approach this situation with a healthy attitude towards all involved parties.<\/p>\n

The Adoption Decision<\/em> by Laura Christianson
\nWhile I didn’t find a lot of NEW information in this book, I really enjoyed reading it and related to a lot of the things she says in the
\nbook. \u00a0This one is a little newer than some of the other books we\u00a0 read and I kind of wish we’d found this one sooner. \u00a0But, like I said, not
\na lot of things I hadn’t read before. \u00a0Some of the chapters would be good for families and friends to read if they’d like to get a better
\nunderstanding of the process we’re going through. \u00a0This book DOES have a strong Christian focus and each chapter ends with a reflection on
\nhow the chapter’s topic relates to faith issues. \u00a0If that turns you off, just skip past those sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I Loved You by Patricia Dreschler This is a story of open adoption written by the birthmother. \u00a0I have to confess that I skipped through and only read her story (it’s interspersed with essays about how she recommends that other people in her situation might deal with similar situations) and found it to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}