{"id":3175,"date":"2012-12-07T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2012-12-07T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:38:24","slug":"the-phenomenon-that-is-scott-lentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-phenomenon-that-is-scott-lentine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phenomenon that is Scott Lentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had the happy luck to meet Scott Lentine, a young man who works at ArcMass, and who has autism. Scott was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/theautismresearchfoundation.org\/current-trends-in-autism-conference\/\">Current Trends in Autism <\/a>conference with his mom, and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to them both. Scott is a poet whom lately has been circulating his poems broadly and deeply among the autism intelligentsia, as well as Sacha Pfeiffer of NPR. Today he sent me his latest poem, and it takes me right back to my summers on Cape Cod. I want everyone to see it and fall in love with summer, and this young man&#8217;s wide open heart:<\/p>\n<p>Marshfield Memories poem<\/p>\n<p>Today is a beautiful day on the beach<br \/>\nThere are plenty of people and dogs to see<br \/>\nThe water is warm and the sky is bright<br \/>\nAnd seeing some people flying a kite<\/p>\n<p>I am having a fun time with cousins and friends<br \/>\nHoping that this day will never end<br \/>\nThe ocean and sands are comfortable and feel so right<br \/>\nTalking a walk towards Brant Rock in the strong sunlight<\/p>\n<p>Now it is the evening of the third of July<br \/>\nWatching the amazing fireworks from the seawall go by<br \/>\nTalking with family about the latest moments of the day<br \/>\nAnd meeting some new friends along the way<\/p>\n<p>It was a great time on the beach today<br \/>\nReading a book and going into the ocean on a bright clear day<br \/>\nThese are moments that I will remember for a long time<br \/>\nBeing on the beach on a nice warm day is truly sublime<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Scott Lentine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had the happy luck to meet Scott Lentine, a young man who works at ArcMass, and who has autism. Scott was at the Current Trends in Autism conference with his mom, and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to them both. Scott is a poet whom lately has been circulating his poems broadly and deeply [&hellip;]<\/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-3175","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-Pd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}