{"id":5385,"date":"2004-08-26T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:10:09","slug":"canadians-look-south-to-adopt-black-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/26\/canadians-look-south-to-adopt-black-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians look south to adopt black kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/news\/0804\/25canada.html\">Canadians look south to adopt black kids<\/a><br \/>\nBy SHELIA M. POOLE<br \/>\nThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br \/>\nPublished on: 08\/24\/04<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AUGUSTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dave Alexander and his wife, Juanita \u00e2\u20ac\u201d exhausted but too excited to sleep \u00e2\u20ac\u201d had just flown from Canada the night before to meet the newest member of their growing brood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There he is! There he is!&#8221; said Alexander, clasping a hand over his heart as he sees his youngest son for the first time. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t get any better than this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After trying unsuccessfully for years to have children of their own, the Alexanders, who live in British Columbia, are adopting their second son, Keiran, who is just a few weeks old.<\/p>\n<p>Keiran and his older adopted brother, Elias, are black. The Alexanders are white. And while international and transracial adoptions are not new, this one has a twist on the trend of U.S. families adopting children from overseas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians look south to adopt black kids By SHELIA M. POOLE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08\/24\/04 AUGUSTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dave Alexander and his wife, Juanita \u00e2\u20ac\u201d exhausted but too excited to sleep \u00e2\u20ac\u201d had&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[63,141],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-intercultural-and-transracial-adoption"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}