{"id":141791,"date":"2025-12-19T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/?p=141791"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:09:58","slug":"meet-stephanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/uncategorized\/meet-stephanie","title":{"rendered":"Meet Stephanie!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stephanie has been volunteering at GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse since 2019!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She is the proud mother of 5, has enjoyed her 8 grandchildren with her husband Gary and by the time you\u2019re reading this, the first great grandbaby will probably be born!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outside of GiGi\u2019s she likes to read, sew, and garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/files\/2025\/12\/stephanie-resized-to-medium.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/files\/2025\/12\/stephanie-resized-to-medium.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/files\/2025\/12\/stephanie-resized-to-medium.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/files\/2025\/12\/stephanie-resized-to-medium-300x233.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Before GiGi\u2019s she was a certified BOCES special education teacher, teaching 4\u201321-year-olds, not all at the same time, of course!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She began volunteering because she missed her student after she retired.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When asked what she loved about GiGi\u2019s, she had a lot of great answers &#8211;\u00a0\u201cHow positive it is!&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0\u201cThe hugs!\u201d-\u201cThe genuine empathy I see in the adults towards each other.\u201d\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAnd the progress in the participants that I see.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0She also said, \u201cAfter working so hard as a teacher, it\u2019s nice to see the positive impact that type of work can have.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When asked what would you say to someone considering volunteering?<strong>\u00a0Absolutely, do it!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested in volunteering with GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Syracuse? Fill out the volunteer interest form on our website and someone from the Playhouse will be in touch. You won&#8217;t regret it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in volunteering with GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Syracuse? Fill out the volunteer interest form on our website and someone from the Playhouse will be in touch. You won&#8217;t regret it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/syracuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}