{"id":4091,"date":"2015-06-21T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2015-06-21T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:14:03","slug":"a-good-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-good-father\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so down about Nat, but late last night Ned and I realized that no matter where this strange new behavior is coming from &#8212; I mean the spitty laughing &#8212; we should be helping him learn to regulate himself, not just feel helpless and sad. Ned said, &#8220;Nat, remember, you like to get ice cream and you can only do that when you&#8217;re feeling calm,&#8221; and Nat stops and says, &#8220;Get ice cream.&#8221; And he&#8217;s lucid again.<\/p>\n<p>So we are going to try using our leverage to show him that he *can* control himself.\u00a0 That is what it&#8217;s like living with my darling Ned. He does not often despair. He doesn&#8217;t read into things or draw long dark conclusions. He lives within what is happening, and bears it as the thing that&#8217;s happening now.<\/p>\n<p>I am so lucky that Ned is Nat&#8217;s father. He is so wise and seems to have infinite patience &#8211;with all of us. And he is very generous, offering me his shoulder to nap against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so down about Nat, but late last night Ned and I realized that no matter where this strange new behavior is coming from &#8212; I mean the spitty laughing &#8212; we should be helping him learn to regulate himself, not just feel helpless and sad. Ned said, &#8220;Nat, remember, you like to get [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","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-13Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","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=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}