{"id":485,"date":"2008-06-29T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/06\/he-does-what-he-can\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T07:28:00","slug":"he-does-what-he-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/he-does-what-he-can\/","title":{"rendered":"He Does What He Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on the Cape this week so there&#8217;s probably going to be a series of airheaded posts.  Nat seems extremely happy (knock wood) and in his element:  smiling and punching the air constantly; Joyful Beach Stompies; boogie-boarding; helping carry this and that here and there.  He is just a joy, plain and simple.  Have you ever felt so happy that you just couldn&#8217;t stop moving around?  Maybe that&#8217;s why I need to exercise sometimes, just to pump my muscles and get my whole body into the imminent happiness pushing its way through me. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s Nat.  Especially in the morning.  To him, it is like the weekend, which means a &#8220;No School&#8221; day, which means wake up as early as possible and come downstairs and walk, walk, walk.  So I usually get up early and try to contain it, so that everyone else can sleep.  I reminded Nat gently that he needs to &#8220;walk and talk calmly, quietly, because it&#8217;s early and everyone else is sleeping.&#8221;  And so there he was, actually tip-toeing and whispering his Stompies!  It was so wonderful and thoughtful that I hugged him.   That guy just does what he can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on the Cape this week so there&#8217;s probably going to be a series of airheaded posts. Nat seems extremely happy (knock wood) and in his element: smiling and punching the air constantly; Joyful Beach Stompies; boogie-boarding; helping carry this and that here and there. He is just a joy, plain and simple. Have you [&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-485","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-7P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}