{"id":146540,"date":"2026-07-01T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/?p=146540"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:09:38","slug":"its-the-friends-we-meet-along-the-way-that-help-us-appreciate-the-journey-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/its-the-friends-we-meet-along-the-way-that-help-us-appreciate-the-journey-50\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the Friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey . . . . . .\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Brett-July-Blog-photo.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Brett-July-Blog-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Brett-July-Blog-photo.jpeg 235w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Brett-July-Blog-photo-220x300.jpeg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I would like you to meet some of my Playhouse friends&#8230;.. They are so awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Luke-July-Blog-photo.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Luke-July-Blog-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Luke-July-Blog-photo.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/files\/2026\/06\/Luke-July-Blog-photo-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\">Please meet one of my friends, Luke!\u00a0 He likes the current program he is in, GiGi\u2019s Professionals (it is such a great program)!\u00a0 Luke\u2019s favorite foods are bananas and popcorn! Luke\u2019s close family members call him \u201cLukie\u201d. Luke\u2019s favorite hobbies are jumping on his trampoline and drawing concepts for stories (sound very interesting)! Luke likes GiGi\u2019s because of how close he is with the participants and volunteers. They feel like family to him (I agree with that Luke)\ud83d\udc95. Luke has a younger sister and a younger brother.\u00a0 He is grateful that he has the opportunity to participate, learn, and socialize at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse\u2764\ufe0f. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you my friend Luke for participating in my blog\ud83d\ude0aHugs 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Phoenix Adult Self Advocate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like you to meet some of my Playhouse friends&#8230;.. They are so awesome! Please meet one of my friends, Luke!\u00a0 He likes the current program he is in, GiGi\u2019s Professionals (it is such a great program)!\u00a0 Luke\u2019s favorite foods are bananas and popcorn! Luke\u2019s close family members call him \u201cLukie\u201d. Luke\u2019s favorite hobbies&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-146540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146540","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=146540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}