{"id":38348,"date":"2019-04-01T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38348"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:22:49","slug":"teens-teach-a-boy-with-autism-to-skateboard-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38348","title":{"rendered":"Teens teach a boy with autism to skateboard on his birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>For Carter, a 5-year-old with high functioning autism and ADHD, it might have been the perfect birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The boy&#8217;s mother, Kristen Braconi, took him to a skate park in South Brunswick, New Jersey, for his fifth birthday last week. As Carter was riding his scooter, a group of older kids showed up and began to teach him how to use a mini skateboard.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">They showed him how to balance on it, offered encouraging words and helped him up when he fell. Later they even sang him happy birthday. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)For Carter, a 5-year-old with high functioning autism and ADHD, it might have been the perfect birthday.The boy&#8217;s mother, Kristen Braconi, took him to a skate park in South Brunswick, New Jersey, for his fifth birthday last week. As Carter was riding his scooter, a group of older kids showed up and began to teach&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}