{"id":447,"date":"2008-08-10T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/08\/keys-to-the-universe-again-and-again\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T12:57:00","slug":"keys-to-the-universe-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/keys-to-the-universe-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Keys to the Universe, Again and Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you don&#8217;t know what I mean by Keys to the Universe, either search my blog for former entries, or just deduce that I mean:  no-fail items or activities, things that always always make me happy and do what they promise.<\/p>\n<p>1) Alternative Leisure, the people who run Nat&#8217;s social group, where Nat learned about friendship.  Not simply the ABA-Style scripted conversations, but he learned to really love hanging out with kids his age, talking or not.<br \/>2) Special Olympics, where Nat learned all about sports and being on a team.<br \/>3) Bike ride down Comm Ave in Newton:  wide, sunny, garden-filled, no traffic in the Carriage Lane.<br \/>4) Uphills that feel like downhills, on your bike:  Warren Street, Beacon St. right before Hammond Pond Parkway, a section of Comm Ave right after Walnut.<br \/>5) Summer fruit and yogurt, especially after being in Atkins hell.<br \/>6) No longer caring what I weigh and finding I don&#8217;t gain weight! MwaHahahahahahahahaha<br \/>7) When Mom helps me figure stuff out.<br \/>8) Happy Beastie<br \/>9) Smiley silly talk Natty<br \/>10) Max and Hannah:  happy Max<br \/>11) Pink earbuds for my purple iPod shuffle<br \/>12) Sexy husband<br \/>13) Occupied children, see above<br \/>14) Movies all five of us like, such as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. <\/span> Unbelievably funny.<br \/>15) Organizing idea for my book<br \/>16) Knowing what a dinner at the White House feels like<br \/>17) Running into a great friend unexpectedly while having coffee with another great friend.<br \/>18) Catching a gorgeous scent while riding:  something blooming, but where?<br \/>19) Gel seat on my bike<br \/>20) Pencil skirt from JCrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you don&#8217;t know what I mean by Keys to the Universe, either search my blog for former entries, or just deduce that I mean: no-fail items or activities, things that always always make me happy and do what they promise. 1) Alternative Leisure, the people who run Nat&#8217;s social group, where Nat learned [&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-447","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-7d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}