define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":4234,"date":"2012-05-27T12:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2012-05-26T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T02:29:44","slug":"looking-backwards-looking-forwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/4234\/","title":{"rendered":"looking backwards \/ looking forwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/4258697530\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4007\/4258697530_d5b7f325d9_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/4209525213\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2505\/4209525213_7089fc0778_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/5103396560\/\" title=\"Apple thief by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4153\/5103396560_11f9ec6d6e_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Apple thief\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/5066373959\/\" title=\"101010 by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4105\/5066373959_cef833c3b6.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" alt=\"101010\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i won&#8217;t lie. these photos make me sad. sad enough that when i was browsing my flickr account for photos of the kids, that i literally gasped when i saw pictures of Jovie holding onto things and crawling through a tunnel. things she hasn&#8217;t done for a very long time. <\/p>\n<p>they were taken when Jovie was between 7 and 17 months old &#8211; my proud display of a growing girl, hitting her milestones and being like any regular kid at that age. back then, i guess you could say we were blissfully ignorant about the challenges children can face, and that&#8217;s totally fine. i don&#8217;t want to live life expecting the worst when the situation is good &#8211; there is a space for being &#8216;ok&#8217; even if you face a tough road ahead. you have to make room for contentment and acceptance or you can&#8217;t move forward. <\/p>\n<p>taking photographs has always been a part of my life, and knowing that i might be taking photos today that could break my heart in the future, doesn&#8217;t make me want to stop taking these photographs. i treasure them, as every image i take creates a memory that i don&#8217;t want to let go of. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i won&#8217;t lie. these photos make me sad. sad enough that when i was browsing my flickr account for photos of the kids, that i literally gasped when i saw pictures of Jovie holding onto things and crawling through a tunnel. things she hasn&#8217;t done for a very long time. they were taken when Jovie [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-jovie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","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=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}