{"id":45445,"date":"2014-08-04T00:29:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T00:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/b-_globe_for_child_at_center_of_an_end-of-life_battle_evangelical_family_cr\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T00:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T00:29:19","slug":"b-_globe_for_child_at_center_of_an_end-of-life_battle_evangelical_family_cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45445","title":{"rendered":"(B. Globe) For child at center of an end-of-life battle, evangelical family created a loving world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a fall day in 2008, the kitchen phone rang inside the Arnetts\u2019 ranch home in Southwick. It was a state social worker, asking if they would consider taking in a \u201cfoster child with disabilities.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The couple didn\u2019t hesitate. They had completed foster-care training two years before, already had cared for a handful of children, and refused to turn away anyone in need.<\/p>\n<p>As devout Christians, they believed God\u2019s work requires sacrifices, including from busy families like theirs raising three boys.<\/p>\n<p>But the social worker didn\u2019t want a quick answer over the phone, insisting instead on a face-to-face visit. A week later, when she and two supervisors showed up at the Arnetts\u2019 house, carrying files and a videotape, they wasted little time before asking, \u201cHave you heard of Haleigh Poutre?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2014\/08\/02\/new-family-for-haleigh\/ZzKyT4wEkv7APZTHmiXMtO\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a fall day in 2008, the kitchen phone rang inside the Arnetts\u2019 ranch home in Southwick. It was a state social worker, asking if they would consider taking in a \u201cfoster child with disabilities.\u201d\u009d The couple didn\u2019t hesitate. They<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45445\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,101,615,168,419,104,114,98,154,177,151,129,108,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}