{"id":1823,"date":"2017-06-19T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2024-02-14T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:14:45","slug":"new-business-promotes-artists-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"New business promotes artists with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1821\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1821\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/202-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/202-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/202-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/202-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/202-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An array of Zenaviv&#8217;s products featuring artwork created by people with autism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/art-by-15-year-old-with-autism-inspired-a-new-loudoun-based-business\/2017\/06\/16\/61a4da4e-5290-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html?utm_term=.ba6404e31aef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brightly colored paintings<\/a> decorate the home of Harish and Sandhya Bikmal, an Ashburn couple with two teenage sons.<\/p>\n<p>Their older son, Saket, 17, is a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria. Himal, 15, who will attend Briar Woods High School in the fall, was diagnosed with profound autism when he was 2.<\/p>\n<p>As Himal\u2019s parents came to terms with his diagnosis, they worried about his future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/art-by-15-year-old-with-autism-inspired-a-new-loudoun-based-business\/2017\/06\/16\/61a4da4e-5290-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html?utm_term=.ba6404e31aef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, June 18, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brightly colored paintings decorate the home of Harish and Sandhya Bikmal, an Ashburn couple with two teenage sons. Their older son, Saket, 17, is a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria. Himal, 15, who will attend Briar Woods High School in the fall, was diagnosed with profound autism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New business promotes artists with autism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94,79,56,18,3],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-arts","tag-ashburn","tag-autism","tag-business","tag-loudoun-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}