{"id":1026,"date":"2012-07-23T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2012-07-23T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:07:29","slug":"a-poem-i-wrote-for-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/a-poem-i-wrote-for-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem I wrote for my son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please Tourette&#8217;s let his body have some peace tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Please Tourette&#8217;s, let him just lay still for once.<\/p>\n<p>Please let him know a state of relaxation, a place of calm predictibility, just for a moment before he goes to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t you take a break, for just a while &#8212; so he can take a break for just a while &#8212; before you resume your endless control of his body?<\/p>\n<p>Or better yet, how about you leave forever, and take the bullies, and starers, and whisperers with you, and let this one be free?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that I would love to see.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/njcts.org\/tsparents\/a-poem-i-wrote-for-my-son\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Tourette&#8217;s let his body have some peace tonight. 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