{"id":77254,"date":"2013-03-02T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=77254"},"modified":"2013-03-02T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:45:19","slug":"baby-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/baby-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Finds Baby In A Subway Station, Beautiful Story Ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t want to give the whole story away because part of the beauty of it is how it unfolds. The story begins with a frantic phone call from the author’s partner:<\/p>\n

\u201dI found a baby!\u201d he shouted. \u201dI called 911, but I don\u2019t think they believed me. No one\u2019s coming. I don\u2019t want to leave the baby alone. Get down here and flag down a police car or something.\u201d By nature Danny is a remarkably calm person, so when I felt his heart pounding through the phone line, I knew I had to run.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being a New Yorker, I can’t imagine finding a baby in a subway station, attempting to alert authorities, and having them not believe me. “The baby, who had been left on the ground in a corner behind the turnstiles, was light-brown skinned and quiet, probably about a day old, wrapped in an oversize black sweatshirt.” A day old. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

The story takes a sort of fairy tale turn when the judge in family court asks the man who found the baby if he is interested in adopting him.:<\/p>\n

The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except for Danny, who answered, simply, \u201dYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dBut I know it\u2019s not that easy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201dWell, it can be,\u201d assured the judge before barking out orders to commence with making him and, by extension, me, parents-to-be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know, I know. It’s a little unbelievable and naturally questions pop into your mind; How could a judge just “offer up” a child for adoption? What if this man was a sociopath? What about all the time it usually takes for parents to adopt? How can someone who “finds” a baby seemingly bypass jumping through all the hoops that adoptive parents have to endure?<\/em><\/p>\n

The answer is, I don’t know<\/em>. But in a world filled with bad news and pain, it’s nice to believe in a judge’s superhuman intuition and read about a happy ending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(photo: Todd Kreykes<\/a>\/ Shutterstock.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no shortage of stories that make us all cringe and hate the world we are living in. Stories…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1121,5212,5213],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Childrearing"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1121,"label":"adoption"},{"value":5212,"label":"found baby"},{"value":5213,"label":"NYC subway"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Maria Guido","author_link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/author\/mguido\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Childrearing","slug":"childrearing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Get childrearing advice and read blog articles about how to raise your kids. Get advice for moms on how to be a good parent.\r\n","parent":0,"count":5343,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":5343,"category_description":"Get childrearing advice and read blog articles about how to raise your kids. Get advice for moms on how to be a good parent.\r\n","cat_name":"Childrearing","category_nicename":"childrearing","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1121,"name":"adoption","slug":"adoption","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1177,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":101,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":5212,"name":"found baby","slug":"found-baby","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5289,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":5213,"name":"NYC subway","slug":"nyc-subway","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5290,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}