{"id":948,"date":"2014-02-25T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/?p=948"},"modified":"2014-02-25T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T17:43:51","slug":"giant-steps-by-tj-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/archives\/948","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;GIANT Steps&#8221; by TJ Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;GIANT Steps&#8221; by TJ Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Off they go, day after day,<br \/>\nLeaving anxious parents who struggle each day.<br \/>\nTo be patient and calm while they figure it out,<br \/>\nTrying to make sense of their world all about.<br \/>\nSome days are good days, and more days are bad,<br \/>\nBut these kids are our kids, the only ones we have.<br \/>\nWe fight for them and with them until we are done,<br \/>\nThen they fight us more just to show us they\u2019ve won.<br \/>\nWe chase them we pull them, while getting the glare,<br \/>\nFrom people who judge us, whisper, and stare.<br \/>\nSome of them biters, hitters and screamers,<br \/>\nSome of them runners, escapers, and dreamers.<br \/>\nThey come here to school to work and to play,<br \/>\nTo earn some rewards doing their ABA.<br \/>\nTo the teachers and staff these are your children too,<br \/>\nFor you hug them and love them just as we do.<br \/>\nWhile it may seem slow as they move through their reps,<br \/>\nWe all must remember, they are taking GIANT STEPS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2011-06-14-Wasatch-Mental-Health-IMG_4696.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2011-06-14-Wasatch-Mental-Health-IMG_4696\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2011-06-14-Wasatch-Mental-Health-IMG_4696-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photography for this gallery courtesy of B. Rimmasch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;GIANT Steps&#8221; by TJ Smith Off they go, day after day, Leaving anxious parents who struggle each day. To be patient and calm while they figure it out, Trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgiantsteps.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}