{"id":141875,"date":"2025-06-12T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/?p=141875"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:25:54","slug":"why-gigis-jessicas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/why-gigis-jessicas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GiGi&#8217;s &#8211; Jessica&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/files\/2025\/06\/Jess-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/files\/2025\/06\/Jess-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/files\/2025\/06\/Jess-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jessica is a long-term resident of Columbus, Georgia, and Smiths Station, Alabama, with her husband, John, and two children, Morgan and Isabella. Jessica is a retired special education teacher with 30 years of experience working with all ages of children and adults with disabilities. Now, she works for a local LLC as a special education advocate and as a homeless prevention specialist with a local non-pro\ufb01t agency. Jessica looks forward to helping the Down syndrome community have access to a welcoming and positive space in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica is a long-term resident of Columbus, Georgia, and Smiths Station, Alabama, with her husband, John, and two children, Morgan and Isabella. Jessica is a retired special education teacher with 30 years of experience working with all ages of children and adults with disabilities. Now, she works for a local LLC as a special education&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chattahoocheevalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}