{"id":26555,"date":"2022-12-20T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/?p=26555"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:01:54","slug":"in-loving-memory-of-howard-gigis-jolly-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/2022\/12\/20\/in-loving-memory-of-howard-gigis-jolly-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"In Loving Memory of Howard (GiGi\u2019s Jolly Santa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the past 4 years, Santa has visited GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Annapolis to spread holiday cheer. This Santa was the real Santa &#8211; one with a sack full of stuffed animals, a real beard, and a naughty or nice list. The participants loved seeing Santa and he always seemed to know their names just like the real Santa would.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa, otherwise known as Howard, was a wonderful volunteer with GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Annapolis. Howard looked forward to putting on the Sa<\/span><span>nta suit to help get our participants in the holiday spirit. <\/span><b>His jolly spirit was infectious\u00a0<\/b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26556 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/files\/2022\/12\/Santa1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><b>and lit up our Playhouse like a Christmas tree.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of our participants had kept the stuffed animal that Howard (Santa) gave her three years ago. It has been passed on to her little brother who sleeps with it every night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Howard\u2019s wife, Maura (otherwise known as Mrs.Clause) said, \u201che was always so happy after his Christmas visit at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse. There was one little girl who was extra excited to see him. She said that she was going to marry Santa.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before Howard passed away a few months ago, he requested that his neighbor keep the tradition going by donating stuffed animals to the Playhouse for a new Santa to distribute. As promised, Howard\u2019s neighbor delivered the stuffed animals this year and Santa\u2019s Workshop attendees were beyond excited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Annapolis will always cherish our time with Howard &#8211; the real Santa. We remember his giving heart and joyful spirit. In loving memory of Howard.\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26557 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/files\/2022\/12\/Santa2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/files\/2022\/12\/Santa2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/files\/2022\/12\/Santa2.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 4 years, Santa has visited GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Annapolis to spread holiday cheer. This Santa was the real Santa &#8211; one with a sack full of stuffed animals, a real beard, and a naughty or nice list. The participants loved seeing Santa and he always seemed to know their names just like the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/annapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}