{"id":307,"date":"2024-04-24T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/?p=307"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:58:28","slug":"making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING PROGRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2502-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2502-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2502-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2502-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_2502.jpg 1505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nightly visits at my flat are becoming more frequent as the kids in Phnom Penh learn that I have returned.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8218-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8218-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8218-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8218-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8218-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8218.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today Mr. Dara and I started the follow-up home visits with the children who have been returned to their families. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8219-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8219-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8219-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8219-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8219-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8219.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We spent the whole day on the road but the results were encouraging. Everyone we visited seems to be making a good adjustment so far. There are others, however, that we have heard may not be doing as well. We will hold off on some of the visits because our presence may interfere with the new guardian&#8217;s ability to discipline or gain the trust of the children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sliep-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sliep-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sliep-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sliep-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sliep-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sliep-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Even our youngest was happy to return to her grandparent&#8217;s care after nearly a year&#8217;s absence because of the grandmother&#8217;s illness. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thanks for checking in on us&#8230; we will try to keep you up to date on our progress. If you have questions please ask us in the comment section below so that everyone can see our response.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE WATOPOTIANS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightly visits at my flat are becoming more frequent as the kids in Phnom Penh learn that I have returned. Today Mr. Dara and I started the follow-up home visits with the children who have been returned to their families. We spent the whole day on the road but the results were encouraging. Everyone we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}