{"id":7740,"date":"2014-05-02T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T19:32:01","slug":"write-defining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2014\/write-defining\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I write and Defining myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you remember last May? When I blogged EVERY. SINGLE. DAY? Well, I might be doing that again; or at least trying to. I already missed yesterday. OOOPS. This year I will Play in May.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/playinmay.jpg\" alt=\"playinmay\" width=\"442\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/playinmay.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/playinmay-300x83.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/playinmay-634x178.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodgoodlaundrybad.com\">Evin<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/slightly-off-kilter.com\">Shelle<\/a>y<\/p>\n<p><strong>First up. May 1st: Why do I write?\u00a0<\/strong>I write because I love it. It feels great to get your jumbled thoughts down and find a way to arrange them that makes sense to you. Hopefully it makes sense to others but if not, that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I write to let other Moms know that if I CAN DO IT, so can she.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I write to let others moms-to-be and dads-to-be in chairs know that this is possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I write so that I will remember these stories and these trips and so that my boys will never be able to forget them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>May 2nd: Defining myself in an uncommon way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Okay. The SCI community might flame me for this one but I frequently let me chair define\/describe me. I know people remember me because of it and I don&#8217;t let it bother me. No I&#8217;m not my chair but my chair is a HUGE HUGE part of me. I&#8217;m the mom in the wheelchair. SO what? I&#8217;m not ashamed of it. It mass me stand out and it gets me noticed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you remember last May? When I blogged EVERY. SINGLE. DAY? Well, I might be doing that again; or at least trying to. I already missed yesterday. OOOPS. This year I will Play in May. Evin | Shelley First up. May 1st: Why do I write?\u00a0I write because I love it. It feels great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,344],"tags":[345],"class_list":{"0":"post-7740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-networking","8":"tag-play-in-may","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-20Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}