{"id":8154,"date":"1999-06-08T18:34:00","date_gmt":"1999-06-08T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2021-07-03T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T00:16:40","slug":"lte-standing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/06\/08\/lte-standing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Standing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:34:46 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: <a href=\"mailto:slapi94706@aol.com\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:slapi94706@aol.com\">Sandra Lapierre<\/a><br>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to thank you for being unafraid of standing up to Mr. Lott and the other<br>senators and congressmen who hold such a racist view. It is hard enough to<br>raise my two biracial sons who we adopted with out having to fight congress and<br>the government to enforce the laws that they have already put on the books. You<br>have featured three different articles about out fight to adopt the last child.<br>You are the first group who has wanted to help support this cause of transracial<br>adoption by featuring the articles. He is our son and is the light of my life.<br>Because of what we went through I have become very active in lobbing for changes<br>in the laws and to see that they are enforced. No one should have to go<br>through what our family has been put through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra Lapierre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:34:46 -0700 (PDT)From: Sandra LapierreSubject: Letter to the Editor I want to thank you for being unafraid of standing up to Mr. Lott and the othersenators and congressmen who&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"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":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-27w","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154","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\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}