{"id":1520,"date":"2010-04-11T18:49:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2010-04-11T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:55:18","slug":"crossing-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/crossing-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had no blog since stupid Blogger bailed on everyone.\u00a0 So Ned and Max transferred this thing with its 1300+ entries over the course of several days and I’ve become choked with posts that could go nowhere.\u00a0 Here is the first one to come bubbling up:<\/em><\/p>\n

Ned and I took a walk with Nat into the Village this afternoon, more to see how he seemed than to get anything.\u00a0 But Starbux is always a lure for me, especially when I have a long day ahead (I’m traveling for the book tour.\u00a0 I had cut some of it short to come back home and be with Natty.\u00a0 Now I’m headed back to Connecticut and then onto New Jersey.).\u00a0 So we headed there; it’s only like a half-mile from home.<\/p>\n

Nat eagerly accepted the invitation to go, which is a good sign.\u00a0 Lately, while he’s been home suffering from the shingles, he has not been himself.\u00a0 He has been answering a very elongated “ye-es” to most questions, and hardcore “NO,” to others.\u00a0 There has been very little that has elicited the psyched-Natty “YES!” complete with the jump-up and the scramble for shoes.\u00a0 I miss that.<\/p>\n

But Nat loped ahead of us in his usual style and I felt very good walking next to Ned in the humid air.\u00a0 It was so steamy and sunny, in fact, that for the first time you could smell the blossoms of the trees.\u00a0 There will be a waft of sugary air and then I turn immediately to identify the source, which is kind of impossible when every tree around me is fluffy white or pink.\u00a0 Ah, such a good problem.<\/p>\n

We got down the hill and crossed over by the Post Office.\u00a0 The blocks are pretty contiguous at this point, but there is one small alley-like street that actually has a crosswalk and light.\u00a0 Nat was ten feet ahead of us, as usual.\u00a0 I watched him get to the curb and I saw him pull himself back and wait, even though the walk light was on.\u00a0 Then I noticed a car that had barreled right up to the crosswalk.\u00a0 Nat had noticed it too, and so he had not crossed, even the light was on.<\/p>\n

I think this means that Nat now understands the gray areas of walking in the streets:\u00a0 that you have to watch for cars and you cannot simply rely on drivers to obey the lights.\u00a0 It happened.\u00a0 It really did.\u00a0 Now the goal of letting him walk alone in the neighborhood is visible, just beyond another block.\u00a0 More independence has bloomed inside that incredible brain of his.\u00a0 I breathed in that knowledge, enjoying it like a fresh breeze of apple blossom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had no blog since stupid Blogger bailed on everyone.\u00a0 So Ned and Max transferred this thing with its 1300+ entries over the course of several days and I’ve become choked with posts that could go nowhere.\u00a0 Here is the first one to come bubbling up: Ned and I took a walk with Nat into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-ow","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}