{"id":20321,"date":"2016-06-28T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/?p=20321"},"modified":"2024-10-10T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:33:25","slug":"pennys-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/uncategorized\/pennys-blog","title":{"rendered":"Penny&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 1\/2 years! \u00a0Time sure flies when you are having fun!<\/p>\n<p>So many memories&#8230;long journey&#8230;still a long way to go&#8230;day by day. \u00a0So much unknown but I am loving this GiGi&#8217;s journey.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to pick one memory so far from the Playhouse, it would be the memory of our very fist Friday Friends gathering. \u00a0This is our social program for adults. \u00a0As the adults began arriving, and most of them for the very fist time, we kept hearing, &#8220;This feels like home,&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m in my living room,&#8221; and &#8220;I feel comfortable.&#8221; \u00a0To me this meant everyone was feeling safe&#8230;all armor could be left at the door and there were no labels. \u00a0Everyone had their own identity. \u00a0Everyone could be 100% themselves&#8230;no worries!<\/p>\n<p>We will have bumps and bruises as we go and grow, but we will hopefully always make everyone who crosses our threshold feel welcome and comfortable to be 100% themselves.<\/p>\n<p>-Penny Wirtjes<\/p>\n<p>Rockford Board Member<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 1\/2 years! \u00a0Time sure flies when you are having fun! So many memories&#8230;long journey&#8230;still a long way to go&#8230;day by day. \u00a0So much unknown but I am loving this GiGi&#8217;s journey. If I had to pick one memory so far from the Playhouse, it would be the memory of our very fist Friday Friends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":141676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/rockford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}