{"id":202,"date":"2006-11-14T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2006\/11\/working-it\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T07:45:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T15:45:35","slug":"working-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2006\/11\/working-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Working It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane.bmp\" src=\"http:\/\/weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/archives\/crane.bmp\" width=\"520\" height=\"739\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A hiatus from blogging occurred, due to unstoppable flows of forms, databases, and meetings and greetings and fare-thee-wells. My son has finally been seen and checked and officially diagnosed, and now, maybe now, people will start to help him to grow into his full bloom. I still have a gazillion other forms to fill out and places to visit because I won&#8217;t ever give up finding him the best help out there in the wild, wild blue.<\/p>\n<p> I took yesterday off to spend time with my husband&#8217;s mother, who stopped in for a few from Detroit, and it was a comfortable relief to lounge about, drinking coffee, tussling with my son, reading sustainable home building magazines, and chit-chatting while the western capitalist world click-clacked along without me&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Now back into the frenetic spiral, with a tinge of a headache, but I remain hopeful curious enough about life to search for more to explore and to learn. As the owner of the local coffee shop down the street says (and she is a great poet): &#8220;My father always said a kick in the ass is still a step forward.&#8221; I feel I have received a series of kicks in the last few months in this move from Japan to Minnesota, and I realize this morning that I have progressed toward my goal of helping my son. I have, at least, stepped almost 7,000 miles ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hiatus from blogging occurred, due to unstoppable flows of forms, databases, and meetings and greetings and fare-thee-wells. My son has finally been seen and checked and officially diagnosed, and now, maybe now, people will start to help him to grow into his full bloom. I still have a gazillion other forms to fill out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-right-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}