{"id":18112,"date":"2021-03-05T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:09:14","slug":"jarens-best-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/2021\/03\/05\/jarens-best-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaren&#8217;s Best of All!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18113 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2021\/03\/Jaren-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2021\/03\/Jaren-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2021\/03\/Jaren-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2021\/03\/Jaren-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/files\/2021\/03\/Jaren.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jaren has been attending local Special Olympics Young Athletes programming virtually since January 18th and this is what Jaren&#8217;s mom shared about his Best of All&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jaren has been working through the obstacle course like a champ, crawling through the tunnel, stepping over the crossbars and through the hula hoop.\u00a0 He has even started to do some of this unprompted.\u00a0 We are so proud of the progress he has made through his participation in Young Athletes!<\/p>\n<p>Way to go Jaren!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Young Athletes is an early childhood play program for children\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">(recommended ages 2 to 10)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">with and without intellectual disabilities. YA introduces basic sport skills, like running,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">kicking,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">\u00a0and throwing<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Participants learn how to play with others and develop important skills for learning. Children also learn to share, take turns, and follow directions<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34769544 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">These skills help children in family, community, and school activities. To RSVP for the next 8-week session visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/sfcalendar\/\">Calendar<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaren has been attending local Special Olympics Young Athletes programming virtually since January 18th and this is what Jaren&#8217;s mom shared about his Best of All&#8230; Jaren has been working through the obstacle course like a champ, crawling through the tunnel, stepping over the crossbars and through the hula hoop.\u00a0 He has even started to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":18114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[20,241],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programs","tag-gigis-playhouse-wausau","tag-special-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","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=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}