{"id":12919,"date":"2013-12-15T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12919"},"modified":"2013-12-15T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:17:54","slug":"autism-and-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/autism-and-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism and chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local council stipulated<br \/>\nthere was not to be<br \/>\nchickens kept in homes<br \/>\nnot residentially<br \/>\none family had an autistic son<br \/>\nwho derived a lot of fun<br \/>\nfrom having chickens in the yard<br \/>\nand sitting in the sun<\/p>\n<p>with them and cuddling them a lot<br \/>\nit made him just feel whole<br \/>\nhe began to perk up and be seen<br \/>\nthey kind of saved his soul<br \/>\nhe clearly loved their  where for all<br \/>\nand they were attracted too<br \/>\nsomething about the little boy<br \/>\nmade the encounters true<\/p>\n<p>the local council finding out<br \/>\nthat the family seemingly<br \/>\nhad broken the law on chicken keeping<br \/>\ntold them they had to see<br \/>\nthe chickens off their premises<br \/>\nfor that had to be the rule<br \/>\nbut the father said his autistic son<br \/>\nloved them that was all<\/p>\n<p>not only loved them but they aided<br \/>\nhim and made him whole<br \/>\nhe was fascinated by them<br \/>\nand them by him their role<br \/>\nand both saw real improvement<br \/>\nthe chicken were the key<br \/>\nelement in all of this<br \/>\nhis healing seemingly<\/p>\n<p>as the father made it clear<br \/>\nthe local council considered it<br \/>\nand agreed they could stay here<br \/>\nthe little boy was getting some therapeutic aid<br \/>\nwatching the chickens in his coop<br \/>\nand eating the eggs they laid<\/p>\n<p>and so it was decided the chickens they could stay<br \/>\nthe autistic boy and the chickens<br \/>\nwere happy right away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local council stipulated there was not to be chickens kept in homes not residentially one family had an autistic son who derived a lot of fun from having chickens in the yard and sitting in the sun with them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/autism-and-chickens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12921,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions\/12921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}