{"id":2135506,"date":"2025-11-04T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2135506"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:41:16","slug":"how-i-met-your-mother-co-creator-craig-thomas-on-spotlighting-disability-and-family-in-his-debut-novel-theres-a-lot-of-me-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-i-met-your-mother-co-creator-craig-thomas-on-spotlighting-disability-and-family-in-his-debut-novel-theres-a-lot-of-me-in-there\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How I Met Your Mother\u2019 Co-Creator Craig Thomas on Spotlighting Disability and Family in His Debut Novel: \u2018There\u2019s a Lot of Me in There\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0858657\/\">Craig Thomas<\/a>, the co-creator of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0460649\/\">How I Met Your Mother<\/a>\u201d is now a novelist. His debut book, \u201cThat\u2019s Not How It Happened,\u201d releases Nov. 4 from Hanover Square Press. Told from four different perspectives, the book is a family dramedy about a young man with Down Syndrome, his parents and his teenaged sister \u2014 and how their lives are upended when Hollywood decides to adapt their story into a film. It\u2019s a funny, heartfelt story filled with meta-moments from Thomas\u2019 own experiences as a TV writer and a parent of a child with disabilities. \u201c This family is not my family,&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Thomas, the co-creator of \u201cHow I Met Your Mother\u201d is now a novelist. His debut book, \u201cThat\u2019s Not How It Happened,\u201d releases Nov. 4 from Hanover Square Press. Told from four different perspectives, the book is a family dramedy about a young man with Down Syndrome, his parents and his teenaged sister \u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2135507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2135506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018How-I-Met-Your-Mother-Co-Creator-Craig-Thomas-on-Spotlighting.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135508,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135506\/revisions\/2135508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}