{"id":41746,"date":"2016-11-17T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41746"},"modified":"2016-11-17T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T03:41:01","slug":"family-seeks-new-home-for-special-needs-adoptees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/11\/family-seeks-new-home-for-special-needs-adoptees\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Seeks New Home for Special Needs Adoptees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jemzee Barrett (Editor of L.A.G.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41747\" title=\"Never-a-Dull-Momentfinal\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Never-a-Dull-Momentfinal-300x135.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Never-a-Dull-Momentfinal-300x135.gif 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Never-a-Dull-Momentfinal.gif 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Lehigh Acres family with several adopted special-needs children is seeking assistance to buy a house that can accommodate its growing ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton have their eyes on a 12-bedroom house in Dunbar and are trying to raise the $200,000 it would cost to buy it, plus additional money needed to renovate it. They\u2019ve set up a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/thehamiltonsflorida\">GoFundMe page<\/a>\u00a0to accept donations.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Scott and Cherrie Hamilton\u2019s 14 children still live with the family, crammed into three bedrooms of a house here in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Keeping germs away from one of the children is always the key, since his condition means a simple cold can land him in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Extra burdens are nothing new for a couple with plans to add to their brood of 12 adopted children and two biological kids.<\/p>\n<p>Cherrie Hamilton said, we take on the ones that are more medically complex, the ones that are harder to place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jemzee Barrett (Editor of L.A.G.) A Lehigh Acres family with several adopted special-needs children is seeking assistance to buy a house that can accommodate its growing ranks. The Hamilton&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}