{"id":93276,"date":"2021-06-26T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93276"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:55:10","slug":"7-normal-is-as-normal-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/7-normal-is-as-normal-does\/","title":{"rendered":"7 normal is as normal does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have 6 kids.<br \/>\n3 have autism.<br \/>\n3 are &#8220;the normals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One bangs his hand on the table at mealtime<br \/>\nAnd he screams<br \/>\nSCREAMS!<br \/>\nHe runs around at bedtime<br \/>\nKnocking his head to the wall<br \/>\nLaughing his butt off.<br \/>\nHe flaps his hands like he will fly off<br \/>\nAnytime he is excited.<\/p>\n<p>He is a &#8220;normal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another bites when her toys are taken.<br \/>\nShe kicks.<br \/>\nShe kicks hard<br \/>\nAnyone who comes near her foot.<br \/>\nThen she laughs<br \/>\nJust as hard.<\/p>\n<p>She is a &#8220;normal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of them is a cuddle bug.<br \/>\nCuddling every chance he gets.<br \/>\nLoves being read to.<br \/>\nLoves playing with other kids.<br \/>\nGreat student<br \/>\nPopular kid.<br \/>\nHe has autism.<\/p>\n<p>He is an &#8220;abnormal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are all abnormally, normally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 6 kids. 3 have autism. 3 are &#8220;the normals.&#8221; One bangs his hand on the table at mealtime And he screams SCREAMS! He runs around at bedtime Knocking his head to the wall Laughing his butt off. He flaps his hands like he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93382,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93276\/revisions\/93382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}