{"id":2,"date":"2007-12-20T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:28:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_743\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"wp-image-743 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0713-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Malacas Family\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0713-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0713-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0713-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_0713-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam, Alona, RJ, Aiden<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re the Malacas Family.\u00a0 We&#8217;re also an autism family.\u00a0 We have two boys with autism, Romulo &#8220;Aiden&#8221; and &#8220;Liam&#8221; Rylee.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden just turned 10 this year.\u00a0 He is nonverbal yet very sweet and loving.\u00a0 He isn&#8217;t into social interaction so when he&#8217;s around people, he prefers to play by himself, look at books, and his favorite, be on his phone and listen to YouTube videos.\u00a0 He very much loves tickles, and a little bit of roughhousing plays.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a picky eater, but for the past couple of years, we&#8217;ve added pizza, chicken nuggets, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Liam will be 7 this July.\u00a0 He is somewhat verbal, (we just learned about the term &#8211; preverbal) and he actually thrives for attention.\u00a0 He can read words, and sing songs from tv and books, but you can&#8217;t really have a conversation with him (although he&#8217;s getting better at this).\u00a0 If he wants something he&#8217;ll say a word or two but lately we&#8217;ve been hearing more than two words out of him.\u00a0 He also have echolalia, sometimes he just repeats whatever we ask him.<\/p>\n<p>About us, the parents, well we basically will do anything to make our kids happy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re the Malacas Family.\u00a0 We&#8217;re also an autism family.\u00a0 We have two boys with autism, Romulo &#8220;Aiden&#8221; and &#8220;Liam&#8221; Rylee. Aiden just turned 10 this year.\u00a0 He is nonverbal yet very sweet and loving.\u00a0 He isn&#8217;t into social interaction so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmalacas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}