{"id":4781,"date":"2019-09-17T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:56:18","slug":"why-gigis-sasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/2019\/09\/17\/why-gigis-sasha\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GiGi&#8217;s? | Sasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4782 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2019\/09\/BLOG_-Why-GiGis-Sasha.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2019\/09\/BLOG_-Why-GiGis-Sasha.png 640w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2019\/09\/BLOG_-Why-GiGis-Sasha-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In October of 2009 we were told the baby I was carrying would have Down syndrome. \u202fOur precious Zoey was born in January 2010 and our journey began! \u202fZoey grabbed our hands and took us through a gate to the most beautiful world I\u2019ve ever known!<\/p>\n<p>In November 2017 Ruby came home to us from China! Another precious little girl with Down syndrome. \u202fWe are now a family of seven and we can\u2019t imagine our lives without these girls!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I longed for so many years was community. \u202fZoey was five before I really started to find and get to know other families with children with Down syndrome. \u202fIt felt like coming home after wandering, to spend time with mamas who \u201cget it.\u201d \u202fI have long since wanted to be a part of helping other families connect and grow together and have wished for a place and space to do so! \u202fGiGi\u2019s Playhouse is that wish come true!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4666 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2018\/04\/G-heart-only-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2018\/04\/G-heart-only-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2018\/04\/G-heart-only-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/files\/2018\/04\/G-heart-only.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 20px) 100vw, 20px\" \/>Sasha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 2009 we were told the baby I was carrying would have Down syndrome. \u202fOur precious Zoey was born in January 2010 and our journey began! \u202fZoey grabbed our hands and took us through a gate to the most beautiful world I\u2019ve ever known! In November 2017 Ruby came home to us from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":4782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10,19,20,21],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whygigis","tag-down-syndrome","tag-family-story","tag-my-why","tag-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/sacramento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}