{"id":846545,"date":"2026-09-13T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846545\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:42:08","slug":"epilepsy-is-an-invisible-illness-this-is-what-daily-life-with-it-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846545\/","title":{"rendered":"Epilepsy is an invisible illness. This is what daily life with it looks like."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SYRYJFEOJ5BP7AOSGIAVQPLZ2Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It\u2019s 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I hear the pat-pat-pat of children\u2019s feet on the hardwood floor above me, then, giggles, and I see two young boys at the top of the staircase. I hear an adult voice call out, \u201cBrush your teeth before going downstairs!\u201d There is a pause, then, \u201cYes, Mom,\u201d with the \u201cMom\u201d drawn out, making it clear the boys aren\u2019t thrilled with the request. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I hear the pat-pat-pat of children\u2019s feet on the hardwood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-846545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}