{"id":4216,"date":"2019-02-05T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2019-02-05T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:35:08","slug":"farming-provides-opportunities-for-people-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2019\/02\/05\/farming-provides-opportunities-for-people-with-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming Provides Opportunities for People with Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Modern Farmer<\/em> reports on four agricultural-based programs that provide job opportunities for people with autism in Ohio, Virginia, and Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Farming provides a \u201cterrific skill match\u201d for those with autism, says Jan Pilarski, who, along with her son, founded Green Bridge Growers in Mishawaka, Indiana. &#8220;We work with them to develop their potential in all we do.\u201d Pilarski says that the workers\u2019 strengths, such as sticking to a routine, following instructions, and going through specific steps to complete a task, are a great match.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2019\/01\/these-four-farms-pair-agriculture-with-autism-for-a-winning-mix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more &#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer reports on four agricultural-based programs that provide job opportunities for people with autism in Ohio, Virginia, and Indiana. Farming provides a \u201cterrific skill match\u201d for those with autism, says Jan Pilarski, who, along with her son, founded Green Bridge Growers in Mishawaka, Indiana. &#8220;We work with them to develop their potential in all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"5","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"News about AgrAbility","parent":0,"count":258,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":258,"category_description":"News about AgrAbility","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}