{"id":168228,"date":"2017-06-27T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=168228"},"modified":"2017-06-27T01:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:50:26","slug":"lost-adopted-young-boy-filmmaker-shares-story-search-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lost-adopted-young-boy-filmmaker-shares-story-search-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and adopted as a young boy, filmmaker shares the story of his search for his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>When filmmaker Jojo de Carteret was four years old, he woke up and found himself alone in his parents&#8217; home in the Philippines; he did not know where his family had gone. He wandered the streets, crying and looking for them. 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