{"id":267,"date":"2013-08-20T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/?p=267"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:19:46","slug":"james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/uncategorized\/james-bond","title":{"rendered":"James’ Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

“See the way his eyes are?…. See the way his nose is?…. These are signs of Down syndrome.” I still remember the way my doctor “broke the news.” So matter-of-fact…. So nonchalant. My first reaction was “Awww, that’s too bad.” Then, of course, I cried. I guess everyone does. I hear stories about how sad some people feel when they hear the diagnosis. How it was not supposed to be this way. For whatever reason, I did not have these feelings. Sure, I was scared, mostly of the unknown. I just remember feeling a sense of calmness. I think subconsciously I knew throughout my pregnancy that James would be born with Down syndrome. With my age, 41, and my husband’s age, 57, I guess I just figured it was inevitable.<\/p>\n

James came into this world so quickly as if to say, “HERE I AM WORLD! ARE YOU READY FOR ME?!” When he was placed on my belly for the first time, I did not see what the doctor was showing me. I did not see Down syndrome. I saw a beautiful, PERFECT, baby boy. Now, 3 years later, I still see that beautiful boy. Not perfect, as the terrible two’s would attest to, but I truly believe that God does not gives us more than we can handle. I am extremely proud and honored that my family was chosen to love James. He has been such an important addition to our large family. His smile, his humor, his ability to make others happy inspires me every day. He wakes up every morning with a smile and an eagerness to just show what he can do. He is such a special little boy, and I feel extremely blessed to be along for the ride. I know his future will be filled with enormous possibilities!<\/p>\n

-James’ mom, Diane\"James1\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“See the way his eyes are?…. See the way his nose is?…. These are signs of Down syndrome.” I still remember the way my doctor “broke the news.” So matter-of-fact…. So nonchalant. My first reaction was “Awww, that’s too bad.” Then, of course, I cried. I guess everyone does. I hear stories about how sad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}