{"id":573883327,"date":"2012-06-03T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883327"},"modified":"2012-06-11T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T22:10:23","slug":"catching-up-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/catching-up-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never got around to mentioning this at the end of a full week, but that&#8217;s what the catch up day is for.<\/p>\n<p>My mother-in-law runs a program at local church called special church. It isn&#8217;t even her church, but she&#8217;s a giver like that.  So this class provides an outlet for some of the members of the local special needs community. There are always projects, like last week&#8217;s flower planting:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june12\/june02.jpg\" alt=\"table\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are parties, social opportunities, a little bit of scripture, snacks and so on. Everyone there is always smiling. Here are some more of the flowers they planted Thursday:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june12\/june03.jpg\" alt=\"table\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We wrote names on the bottom of the terracotta and spooned in potting soil and pretty blooming colors. After a while, it was time for the music therapist, who stops by and plays for a half-hour or so every week.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june12\/june04.jpg\" alt=\"table\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The weather was so nice they did everything outdoors last week. We sat in the side lawn at the church, surrounded by peaceful trees and a memorial sculpture and under picturesque clouds and howled through made up songs and people danced through classic rock and sang <em>What  Wonderful World<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Some of us even remembered the end, but no one was really looking forward to it. Sometimes things should just go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never got around to mentioning this at the end of a full week, but that&#8217;s what the catch up day is for. My mother-in-law runs a program at local church called special church. It isn&#8217;t even her church, but she&#8217;s a giver like that. So this class provides an outlet for some of the members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883330,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883327\/revisions\/573883330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}