{"id":2811,"date":"2008-07-06T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2008-07-06T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T22:49:26","slug":"mcfarland-kids-now-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"McFarland Kids Now With Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family members, including the <strong>McFarland<\/strong> children&#8217;s &#8220;paternal grandmother from Sacramento, their maternal grandparents and several of their mother&#8217;s sisters&#8221; traveled to Salt Lake City to get the children of <strong>Stephanie<\/strong> and <strong>Tod McFarland<\/strong>, the Carlsbad couple who <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2788\" target=\"_blank\">died in an automobile accident<\/a><\/strong> early Thursday July 3, 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They&#8217;ve asked for Mommy and Daddy,&#8221; said <strong>Shirley Rehder<\/strong>, the children&#8217;s great-aunt. &#8220;The little one wanted his daddy to tuck him in last night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tod McFarland was the lead physical therapist at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippshealth.org\/locations\/hospitals__scripps-green-hospital\" target=\"_blank\">Scripps Green Hospital<\/a><\/strong> in La Jolla and Stephanie was a stay-at-home mom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They were the most beautiful people,&#8221; Rehder said. &#8220;I told Tod and Stephanie that if ever there was a family that needed to be modeled, it was theirs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Family members have not yet decided who the recently orphaned children will live with, but they have decided that they will keep them together. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families during this time of tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080706-9999-1m6crash.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family members, including the McFarland children&#8217;s &#8220;paternal grandmother from Sacramento, their maternal grandparents and several of their mother&#8217;s sisters&#8221; traveled to Salt Lake City to get the children of Stephanie and Tod McFarland, the Carlsbad couple who died in an automobile accident early Thursday July 3, 2008. They&#8217;ve asked for Mommy and Daddy,&#8221; said Shirley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}