{"id":1145,"date":"2019-04-01T15:03:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:03:32","slug":"and-you-can-love-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"And You Can Love Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a mother and grandmother, this story speaks to me about the power of unconditional love we bring to any situation. This book is an excellent resource for adults who have a child or grandchild with autism. It acknowledges the different ways my loved one with autism may communicate and reminds me that we love completely. As a former special education teacher, this story gives me words to be able to keep sharing with people about the wonderful diversity that we see in the world. Everyone has gifts.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8212;<strong>Deb Holtz is a former special education teacher, a current end-of-life doula, and a mother and grandmother. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In <strong>You Can Love Me<\/strong>, Sherry Lee gives us the world of Ethan, a little boy with autism. Although Ethan is mute, his daily routine of bouncing a ball and expressing his needs, as well as his interior life are revealed through simple sketches and lovely lines like <em>Today I am another year of being me<\/em>. A welcome and wonderful addition to the as-yet-tiny body of work about children with autism, <strong>You Can Love Me <\/strong>is a beautiful, profoundly moving book.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;Alison McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of many books for children and adults. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/frontcover_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1146 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/frontcover_sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/frontcover_sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/frontcover_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/frontcover_sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/frontcover_sm.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD &nbsp; \u201cAs a mother and grandmother, this story speaks to me about the power of unconditional love we bring to any situation. This book is an excellent resource for adults who have a child or grandchild with autism. It acknowledges the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1145\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,48,208,13],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-autism","tag-loving-healing-modern-history-press","tag-picture-books","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}