define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":3496,"date":"2011-09-09T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2011-09-09T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:11:11","slug":"the-next-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/3496\/","title":{"rendered":"the next step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1315270795203a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1315270795203a\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1315270795203a.jpg 480w, http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1315270795203a-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1315270795203a-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>firstly, thank you for all the emails, messages, tweets and calls over the past few days. i know it&#8217;s a bit odd &#8211; what do you say? but just reaching out to us has been enough to keep me going. support, they say, is something we&#8217;re going to need especially in these early stages.<\/p>\n<p>this week so far as been filled with endless amounts of paperwork, much needed family time and the first seeds of &#8216;what do we do next?&#8217;. i am considering taking another month off from work (i&#8217;m supposed to be back in about 3 weeks time) to spend more time taking Jovie to more appointments and getting her into a schedule of therapy and support groups.. but i&#8217;ll have to get back to work eventually which makes me sad. <\/p>\n<p>Jovie had a great time at Gymbaroo this morning, her best session yet! it&#8217;s been really great to spend that time with her and i can&#8217;t wait to get stuck into her OT (occupational therapy) sessions with her soon. (though we&#8217;re on waiting lists that are already 3 months long). <\/p>\n<p>i like to keep busy, so even all of this is one crazy ride, i&#8217;m still thinking of ways that I can be a champion for Jovie and maybe do more with my life and not just sit on my butt and wallow in it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>firstly, thank you for all the emails, messages, tweets and calls over the past few days. i know it&#8217;s a bit odd &#8211; what do you say? but just reaching out to us has been enough to keep me going. support, they say, is something we&#8217;re going to need especially in these early stages. this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-jovie","category-parenthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}