{"id":58701,"date":"2017-10-09T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/?p=58701"},"modified":"2017-10-09T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:26:13","slug":"bunco-2017-syndrome-acceptance-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/special-events\/bunco-2017-syndrome-acceptance-month","title":{"rendered":"Bunco Down 2017-Down Syndrome Acceptance Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CTaNIUK6HJM&#038;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CTaNIUK6HJM&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a great way to kick off Down Syndrome Acceptance Month&#8230;Sunday, October 1st was our 6th Annual Bunco Down Benefit!\u00a0 The room was filled with 250 participants, all of which were there to support GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse McHenry County Down Syndrome Achievement Center and to help us with our mission; to change the way the world views Down syndrome!\u00a0 The day began with Smiling faces, tons of raffles and silent auctions to bid on.\u00a0 Once everyone found their way to their &#8220;pod&#8221;, the event began with a few minutes of acceptance and awareness about Down syndrome and GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse McHenry County.\u00a0 Val Lucius, Aiden&#8217;s Mom, gave a wonderful speech about her family&#8217;s experience at the Playhouse from the first moment they walked through the doors.\u00a0 Val talked about what a huge part GiGi&#8217;s has played not only in Aiden&#8217;s life, but the lives of all their children!\u00a0 We can&#8217;t thank Val enough for sharing her story and helping us spread acceptance!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A very special thank you to the dedicated Bunco committee, volunteers, donors and sponsors for all that you did to make this such a successful event!\u00a0 See you all next year on <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Sunday, October 7, 2018!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GiGi&#039;s Playhouse McHenry County Bunco 2017 Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jOx_q6rQbHo?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great way to kick off Down Syndrome Acceptance Month&#8230;Sunday, October 1st was our 6th Annual Bunco Down Benefit!\u00a0 The room was filled with 250 participants, all of which were there to support GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse McHenry County Down Syndrome Achievement Center and to help us with our mission; to change the way the world&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[118,119,76],"class_list":["post-58701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events","tag-acceptance","tag-bunco","tag-down-syndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}