{"id":141907,"date":"2024-08-02T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/?p=141907"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:42:23","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-meet-lauren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/2024\/08\/02\/volunteer-spotlight-meet-lauren\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight&#8230;Meet Lauren!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi Everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m Lauren and I&#8217;m a student at UW-Whitewater currently studying music education. I&#8217;ve been playing the saxophone for around eight years now. I play piano as well, but I&#8217;ve only been playing for a few years. I&#8217;ve been give nmany opportunities to travel because o music. I&#8217;ve traveled to Europe multiple times, marched in the Rose Bowl, and played a halftime show at Lambeau Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enjoy listening to a bunch of different artists including: The Beatles, ABBA, Amy Winehouse, Jon Batiste, Jacob Collier, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Sabrina Carpenter, Camila Cabello, Charlie Parker, Ariana Grande, Ella Fitzgerald, Chicago, and David Bowie just to name a few. My liked songs playlight on Spotify has over 1,000 songs. So if that doesn&#8217;t show that I&#8217;m an avid music lover, I don&#8217;t know what will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m so excited that I&#8217;m able to help start up the music program for Fall session at GiGi&#8217;s and look forward to seeing you!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2024\/08\/Lauren.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2024\/08\/Lauren.jpg 310w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2024\/08\/Lauren-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! I&#8217;m Lauren and I&#8217;m a student at UW-Whitewater currently studying music education. I&#8217;ve been playing the saxophone for around eight years now. I play piano as well, but I&#8217;ve only been playing for a few years. I&#8217;ve been give nmany opportunities to travel because o music. I&#8217;ve traveled to Europe multiple times, marched&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":141908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,251,234,239,246],"tags":[10,240,20,270],"class_list":["post-141907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness","category-gigis-playhouse","category-programs","category-special-education","category-volunteering","tag-down-syndrome","tag-education","tag-gigis-playhouse-wausau","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}