{"id":46,"date":"2010-01-24T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/the-schneider-family-book-award\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T20:11:48","slug":"the-schneider-family-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/24\/the-schneider-family-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schneider Family Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcelo in the Real World was the recipient of this year&#8217;s Schneider Family Book Award. I am so very proud and honored to have received this award. It is a very meaningful award to me. The award is given for &#8220;a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.&#8221; The award, for me, recognizes the many young men and women who suffer because their perception of the world differs from that of a neuro-typical person. The award is also a recognition that &#8220;artistic expression&#8221; can take us into the world of the non-neuro-typical person like nothing else. People sometimes ask me how I came upon Marcelo&#8217;s voice, a voice that resembles the voice of so many young people with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, and ultimately I have no answer other than to say that the voice was a gift and also that somewhere in me I too must have Marcelo&#8217;s voice, I too must see the world the way he sees it, if only in a small way. I am glad there are awards like the Schneider Award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcelo in the Real World was the recipient of this year&#8217;s Schneider Family Book Award. I am so very proud and honored to have received this award. It is a very meaningful award to me. The award is given for &#8220;a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,13,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aspergers-syndrome","category-awards","category-current-events","category-marcelo-in-the-real-world","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}