{"id":20792,"date":"2026-06-04T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20792"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:10:48","slug":"more-x-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/06\/04\/more-x-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"More X nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-373.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-373.png 597w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-373-593x270.png 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 390,000 kids in foster care<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of those, about 65,000 are eligible for adoption<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But about half of those are already in process of being adopted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual number eligible is around 30,000 or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The 100,000 figured comes from a misreading of a published data point that measured &#8220;a goal of adoption&#8221;, but not actually eligible for adoption.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one in the comment thread question the 100k claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: 100k kids available for adoption. Actual number: may be 30,000. No one questioned the false claims on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,352,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-misinformation","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20794,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792\/revisions\/20794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}