{"id":146135,"date":"2025-08-06T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/?p=146135"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:13:10","slug":"its-the-friends-we-meet-along-the-way-that-help-us-appreciate-the-journey-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/its-the-friends-we-meet-along-the-way-that-help-us-appreciate-the-journey-40\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the Friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey . . . . . .\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I would like you to meet some of my Playhouse friends\u2026.. They are so awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/BrettBlogAugust.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/BrettBlogAugust.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146134\" style=\"width:185px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/BrettBlogAugust.jpg 185w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/BrettBlogAugust-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please meet one of my new friends, Ari\ud83d\ude00. She loves reading! Ari has 3 brothers, Ethan (25), Ridge (21), and Reed (20). She also has 1 dog named Scout. Ari\u2019s favorite food is Chicken nuggets with honey mustard! Her dad calls her Peet\ud83d\udc95. Ari loves dancing and she is gonna be a YouTuber (wow Ari, that\u2019s so cool)\ud83e\udd29. Ari\u2019s favorite places to go are Bismarck, ND and Oklahoma. She wants to go to the Stranger Things Studio! Her favorite thing about GiGi\u2019s is \u201cFriends of course. They talk about Stranger Things\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/Ari.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/Ari.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/Ari.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2025\/08\/Ari-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you Ari (and mom) for participating in my blog, Hugs to you\ud83e\udd17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submitted By:&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brett Schatzman&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Phoenix Adult Self Advocate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like you to meet some of my Playhouse friends\u2026.. They are so awesome! Please meet one of my new friends, Ari\ud83d\ude00. She loves reading! Ari has 3 brothers, Ethan (25), Ridge (21), and Reed (20). She also has 1 dog named Scout. Ari\u2019s favorite food is Chicken nuggets with honey mustard! Her dad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}