{"id":1568,"date":"2012-02-01T05:24:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2012-02-01T05:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T05:24:23","slug":"happy-birthday-susie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Susie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my mom&#8217;s birthday today, y&#8217;all! So, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">happy birthday, Mama Susie!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted J to sing a song for his Mama Susie for her birthday, but, therein lies a problem.<\/p>\n<p>J hates, HATES the birthday song. I mean, hates as in like, makes him so sad that tears start flowing before the candles are even blown out. And, you know what? He&#8217;s one of many kids on the autism spectrum that loathe that song. For some reason, they just despise it. Sometimes, I think that should somehow be a criteria on the DSM&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I asked him to sing a song for Mama Susie for her birthday. Obviously we knew that the &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; song was not in the running. So I asked him to sing a classic song that she would know. \u00a0He chose Nat King Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s L-O-V-E sung by J, accompanied by N &#8212; filmed in the terrible low light of my bedroom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WzuaEULoHS0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Wednesday, everyone, and Happy Birthday, again, Susie Q. For you, I wish you <strong>many<\/strong> more birthdays and, for the rest of us, I wish that we may all be as energetic when we are your age as you are, today.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my mom&#8217;s birthday today, y&#8217;all! So, happy birthday, Mama Susie! I wanted J to sing a song for his Mama Susie for her birthday, but, therein lies a problem. J hates, HATES the birthday song. I mean, hates as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}