{"id":5150,"date":"2017-08-31T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2017-08-31T21:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:01:28","slug":"hello-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=5150","title":{"rendered":"Hello Dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4397\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?attachment_id=4397\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?fit=2254%2C2884\" data-orig-size=\"2254,2884\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HHBabyPic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?fit=234%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?fit=604%2C773\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4397\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?resize=234%2C300\" alt=\"HHBabyPic\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?resize=234%2C300 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?resize=800%2C1024 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HHBabyPic.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears there might be some progress on the paternity search! My cousin Amy, the genealogist found my 1st cousin Valerie through GedMatch. We have my father narrowed down to one of two brothers. I\u2019m not going to name names until we receive the results of a DNA test my potential half-sister is taking. Said brothers live in Ontario but are from New Brunswick where I was born. Valerie\u2019s origins were nearly as obscured as mine but her adopted mother revealed her father\u2019s name. I never had a name.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I am a Scot! Ironic that my Ukrainian <em>alleged<\/em> <em>father<\/em> gave me a Scottish name. Mom wanted to call me <em>Debbie<\/em>. So I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic and pinching myself, can&#8217;t believe this is happening! I had given up hope of ever finding my kin. Our kin, mine and my son&#8217;s.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see what develops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears there might be some progress on the paternity search! My cousin Amy, the genealogist found my 1st cousin Valerie through GedMatch. We have my father narrowed down to one of two brothers. I\u2019m not going to name names until we receive the results of a DNA test my potential half-sister is taking. Said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}