{"id":2604,"date":"2009-12-21T06:20:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2009-12-21T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:20:18","slug":"inspiringwoman-abandoned-in-fairfax-as-a-baby-finds-her-rescuers-washingtonpost-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/inspiringwoman-abandoned-in-fairfax-as-a-baby-finds-her-rescuers-washingtonpost-com\/","title":{"rendered":"inspiring::Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers &#8211; washingtonpost.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was Sept. 6, 1989. They discovered the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Infant\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infant\">newborn<\/a> wrapped in towels at the front door of a townhouse in their <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fairfax County, Virginia\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.83,-77.28&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=38.83,-77.28%20%28Fairfax%20County%2C%20Virginia%29&amp;t=h\">Fairfax County<\/a> complex and took the infant to Emily&#8217;s, where her stepfather called <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Police\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Police\">police<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe whole thing was over pretty quickly. The authorities took the baby girl, who was later adopted. Chris and Emily, both 15, went on with their lives, although Emily often cried when she told people the story, and the two called each other every Sept. 6.<br \/>\nTwenty years passed.<br \/>\nThen, on Dec. 2, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Student\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Student\">college student<\/a> named Mia Fleming sent them both a message via <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>: Might they be the same Chris and Emily who had once found a baby left at a stranger&#8217;s door?<br \/>\nIf so, she just wanted to say thanks.<br \/>\nAfter all these years, the little girl they had found had found them.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2009\/12\/16\/ST2009121604383.html\">Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/f316d791-8a80-4bd0-8e69-fda67a9bb27c\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Sept. 6, 1989. They discovered the newborn wrapped in towels at the front door of a townhouse in their Fairfax County complex and took the infant to Emily&#8217;s, where her stepfather called police. The whole thing was over pretty quickly. The authorities took the baby girl, who was later adopted. Chris and Emily, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/inspiringwoman-abandoned-in-fairfax-as-a-baby-finds-her-rescuers-washingtonpost-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;inspiring::Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers &#8211; washingtonpost.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,79],"tags":[327,530,532,533,1114,1455,1482,1500],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiring","category-reposts","tag-children","tag-facebook","tag-fairfax-county","tag-fairfax-county-virginia","tag-police","tag-united-states","tag-virginia","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}