{"id":870,"date":"2007-07-09T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/07\/my-comeback-came-and-went\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T17:11:00","slug":"my-comeback-came-and-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/my-comeback-came-and-went\/","title":{"rendered":"My Comeback Came and Went"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/images.ucomics.com\/comics\/cbw\/2007\/cbw070708.gif\">really great comic strip<\/a> came my way via one of my autism email lists (Thanks Lisa!).  A huge topic of conversation among autism parents is &#8220;the comeback that got away.&#8221;  Why do our words leave us when we have an obvious situation demanding that we step in and straighten out some jerk?  Like the teenage twits on the beach who were laughing and staring at Natty.  I should have said, &#8220;_______&#8221;  Instead I flung sand on them.  Or the family who kept staring and whispering about Nat and Max (because of his dreds, I guess).  Eventually when we were leaving I caught the dad&#8217;s eye and stared at him.  But he smiled at me, so I waved.  D&#8217;oh.  I <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">waved!<\/span>  Why am I such a nice girl? <\/p>\n<p>What is the best comeback you have ever had for a rude person?  Maybe I&#8217;ll get to use one of them one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really great comic strip came my way via one of my autism email lists (Thanks Lisa!). A huge topic of conversation among autism parents is &#8220;the comeback that got away.&#8221; Why do our words leave us when we have an obvious situation demanding that we step in and straighten out some jerk? Like the [&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-870","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-e2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}