{"id":5224,"date":"2011-02-26T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-26T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T21:37:08","slug":"celebrate-baby-trapped-in-ukraine-2-years-is-reunited-with-his-gay-dads-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/02\/celebrate-baby-trapped-in-ukraine-2-years-is-reunited-with-his-gay-dads-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATE! 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But they have been unable to travel to Ukraine since March 2010, when in desperation they attempted to smuggle the baby out of the country and failed. They have not seen the boy since then.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintcitynews.com\/article\/GB\/20110226\/CP01\/302269975\/-1\/stalbert\/baby-trapped-in-ukraine-2-years-by-bureaucracy-is-reunited-with&#038;template=cpArt\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the reunion (in French):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gaycast.net\/video\/Reunion\/player?layout=&#038;read_more=1\" width=\"420\" height=\"346\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Ghilain, born 2 years ago to a surrogate in Ukraine, has been unable to leave that country and join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,64],"tags":[322,11957],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CELEBRATE! 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