{"id":336,"date":"2011-12-26T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-12-26T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:48:01","slug":"my-best-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/my-best-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My best girl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollis became a household name when Nathan picked Callie up from preschool for a doctor\u2019s appointment. As he wheeled her out of the classroom, he noticed someone trailing behind them.<\/p>\n<p>When he turned around he saw a little girl following them to the door. \u201cHollis you can\u2019t leave with Callie,\u201d one of the teachers said.<\/p>\n<p>When we asked Callie who Hollis was, she replied, \u201cMy best girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve always been concerned about how other children would treat Callie. Not just rejecting her, but seeing her as someone to pity. And children have always been nice to Callie &#8212; bringing her toys and books &#8212; but there\u2019s something special about Hollis.<\/p>\n<p>As with most best friends, it\u2019s nothing we can pinpoint. It\u2019s simply a comfortable presence. It doesn\u2019t matter that Callie can\u2019t sit on the floor to play, dance to the classroom music or chase Hollis around the playground. She simply loves Callie. And Callie loves her.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan and Callie went to Hollis\u2019 third birthday party earlier this month at a gym full of inflatable jumping contraptions. Had it been anyone else\u2019s birthday, Nathan probably wouldn\u2019t have taken her. At that time, we were too caught up in our own sadness, which we projected onto Callie, thinking she would feel bad too.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Callie had the time of her life. Nathan helped Callie \u201cjump\u201d on every piece of equipment, and he came home with a half-broken back and an ecstatic Callie. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-337\" style=\"margin: 7px 7px 7px 0;float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hollis-3rd-bday-4-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan and Callie on a slide\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hollis-3rd-bday-4-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hollis-3rd-bday-4.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> Hollis\u2019 mom snapped this picture of Nathan taking Callie down a huge inflatable slide. I understand it was quite a sight watching Nathan hurl himself up the slide holding Callie in one arm and using the other to grasp the toddler-sized climbing ropes.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re frequently told how Callie has changed people\u2019s lives. Hollis has changed ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollis became a household name when Nathan picked Callie up from preschool for a doctor\u2019s appointment. As he wheeled her out of the classroom, he noticed someone trailing behind them. When he turned around he saw a little girl following them to the door. \u201cHollis you can\u2019t leave with Callie,\u201d one of the teachers said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}