{"id":20,"date":"2014-09-09T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2014-09-09T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:16:44","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hi there! \u00a0If you&#8217;re new around here and don&#8217;t know us personally, we&#8217;re the Pollard&#8217;s, Josh, Jen,\u00a0Eden and Jia. \u00a0We started this blog when we were beginning the process of adopting Jia from China. \u00a0We brought her home on July 25th 2015 and now we&#8217;re all working on finding our new normal as a family of four. \u00a0We&#8217;ll continue to update periodically, and absolutely welcome any questions you might have about our adoption process specifically or adoption generally. \u00a0You can contact me directly at pollard_jen(at)yahoo(dot)com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/gl.thedigitalmediazone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pollard-0013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-330 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/gl.thedigitalmediazone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pollard-0013-300x200.jpg?resize=345%2C230\" alt=\"View More: http:\/\/mshanerphotography.pass.us\/pollard2015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pollard-0013.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pollard-0013.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pollard-0013.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Answers to some of the questions I always want to know when visiting an adoption blog:<\/p>\n<p>Our adoption agency is <a href=\"http:\/\/ccaifamily.org\">Chinese Children Adoption International or CCAI<\/a>. \u00a0We think they&#8217;re pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Our home study agency is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofycares.org\/\">Options for Families and Youth<\/a>. \u00a0Our Social Worker is Ginger Heyneman and she is amazing. \u00a0If you&#8217;re looking for Ohio home study services, we highly recommend OFY.<\/p>\n<p>There is a tab at the top for our adoption time line that I update every time something happens.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit and responsibility for all our family photos forever and ever goes to Melissa Shaner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/mshanerphotography\/120837494602262\">mshaner photography<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks Melissa!<\/p>\n<p>I have comments on most posts turned off just because I kept getting slammed by spammers. \u00a0But please feel free to contact me at the email above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hi there! \u00a0If you&#8217;re new around here and don&#8217;t know us personally, we&#8217;re the Pollard&#8217;s, Josh, Jen,\u00a0Eden and Jia. \u00a0We started this blog when we were beginning the process of adopting Jia from China. \u00a0We brought her home on July 25th 2015 and now we&#8217;re all working on finding our new normal as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/about-us\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}