{"id":3972,"date":"2015-03-17T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2015-03-17T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T17:37:46","slug":"my-birthday-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/my-birthday-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Birthday Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Z 8th Bday 067\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Zach, my dear, beautiful boy,<\/p>\n<p>Just a short time ago you turned eight (and it seems a short time ago you were still in diapers.) As is the McCafferty custom you had no less than four birthday parties (your mother believes everyone should have a birthday month,) and you enjoyed all of them thoroughly. You\u2019ve grown into such a wonderful \u201cmedium boy,\u201d as you like to say.<\/p>\n<p>And your father and I couldn\u2019t be more proud.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of your kindness and generosity of spirit.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of how you share your challenges and triumphs with Justin even though he doesn\u2019t respond in words.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of how hard you work in school (even when you don\u2019t always want to.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of how you stand up for yourself, telling others your autism is not a \u201cboo-boo on the brain,\u201d but a different way of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of how hard you work in your after-school activities.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of how you\u2019re always at your brother\u2019s side to help him when he needs it.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of your sense of humor and killer knock-knock jokes (you got those from your dad.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of your wish to right the injustices of the world (and your fearlessness in doing so.)<\/p>\n<p>But mostly, we\u2019re proud of your heart full of love, and so grateful you\u2019re ours.<\/p>\n<p>We love you, happy birthday sweet boy!<\/p>\n<p><i>For more on my family visit my blog at autismmommytherapist.wordpress.com\/<br \/>\nFollow me on Facebook at Autism Mommy-Therapist <\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/03\/my-birthday-boy\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Zach, my dear, beautiful boy, Just a short time ago you turned eight (and it seems a short time ago you were still in diapers.) As is the McCafferty custom you had no less than four birthday parties (your mother believes everyone should have a birthday month,) and you enjoyed all of them thoroughly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":3974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[295,294],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-ocean-county","tag-autism-acceptance","tag-autism-awareness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Z-8th-Bday-067.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-124","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}