{"id":27360,"date":"2025-12-28T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27360"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:26:15","slug":"you-are-not-a-burden-the-foster-mom-who-gave-me-a-place-to-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27360","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not a Burden\u201d: The Foster Mom Who Gave Me a Place to Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I entered foster care at seven, learning early how to stay small, quiet, and temporary. Homes changed, people came and went, and I learned not to expect too much\u2014until one foster mother, Margaret, treated me like I mattered. She baked, hummed, and once told me, \u201cYou are not a burden. You are someone\u2019s miracle.\u201d I lived with her just long enough to feel safe before being moved again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years later, while working at a caf\u00e9, she walked in. She recognized me instantly and offered me something I\u2019d never had: a place that was saved just for me. A job at her bakery. A spare room. A fresh start. She isn\u2019t my real mom\u2014but she\u2019s the reason I finally know what it feels like to belong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I entered foster care at seven, learning early how to stay small, quiet, and temporary. Homes changed, people came and went, and I learned not to expect&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":119,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27362,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360\/revisions\/27362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}