{"id":6480,"date":"2014-11-12T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2017-06-01T01:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:52:58","slug":"the-day-that-changes-the-rest-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=6480","title":{"rendered":"The Day that Changes the Rest of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6481\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sarah-R-THE-day-w6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6481\" title=\"The Day that Changes the Rest of Your Life\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sarah-R-THE-day-w6.jpg\" alt=\"The Day that Changes the Rest of Your Life\" width=\"440\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Day that Changes the Rest of Your Life. A self portrait.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sarah is an exceptional model, a photographer, and most important, a friend. That is why this self portrait and the story behind it are important to me.\u00c2\u00a0 In her own words:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dropped my then 4 year old Aidan off to his dad. He had just been diagnosed with Fragile X Syndrome and low spectrum autism. I walked past his room to discover the evidence I&#8217;d never really put together. Walking through his room I found his blanket and just cried. It hit me what the rest of my life would be like. I decided to capture it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6482\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/091128-Sarah-FB-Aidan-words-comp-j5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6482\" title=\"091128-Sarah-FB-Aidan-words-comp-j5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/091128-Sarah-FB-Aidan-words-comp-j5.jpg\" alt=\"FaceBook posts from 5 years ago.\" width=\"520\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/091128-Sarah-FB-Aidan-words-comp-j5.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/091128-Sarah-FB-Aidan-words-comp-j5-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/091128-Sarah-FB-Aidan-words-comp-j5-416x300.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FaceBook posts from 5 years ago when Aidan started to talk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I remember when the doctors told Sarah her son would never talk. And I remember the incredible joy and excitement when, 5 years ago, he started to use words. Today he uses sentences in conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah is an exceptional model, a photographer, and most important, a friend. That is why this self portrait and the story behind it are important to me.\u00c2\u00a0 In her own words:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}