{"id":53644,"date":"2016-03-09T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/after_living_brazils_dream_family_confronts_microcephaly_and_economic_crisi\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:00:36","slug":"after_living_brazils_dream_family_confronts_microcephaly_and_economic_crisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53644","title":{"rendered":"NYT-After Living Brazil\u2019s Dream, Family Confronts Microcephaly and Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were young and relishing Brazil\u2019s version of the American dream: buying a car, joining a church, starting a family.<\/p>\n<p>With millions of others, they had climbed into the country\u2019s expanding middle class. They had even moved into California, a neighborhood of strivers who had left the big, impoverished city nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was that magical moment when everything seemed possible,\u201d\u009d said Germana Soares, 24.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the sixth month of Ms. Soares\u2019s pregnancy, the couple discovered how quickly their fortunes, like those of their nation, could change. A routine exam showed that their son weighed much less than he should. Doctors worried that he, like hundreds of other Brazilian babies born in recent months, had microcephaly, an incurable condition in which infants have abnormally small heads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/09\/world\/americas\/after-living-brazils-dream-family-confronts-microcephaly-and-economic-crisis.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were young and relishing Brazil\u2019s version of the American dream: buying a car, joining a church, starting a family. With millions of others, they had climbed into the country\u2019s expanding middle class. They had even moved into California, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53644\">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":[39,40,50,175,357,101,149,168,104,98,177,151,208,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-brazil","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-south-america","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53644","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=53644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}