{"id":543,"date":"2008-07-15T02:55:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-07-15T02:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:55:41","slug":"wendell-smith-school-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Wendell Smith School &#8211; Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John &#8211;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I meant to write you sooner, but have been so focused on helping Kirsten pack up her classroom, I forgot.&nbsp; Sorry.&nbsp; The box with the SamStones arrived on Monday, so on Tuesday we took them in to school.&nbsp; Kirsten photocopied the letter and card and we gave one to each of the kids, along with a SamStone.&nbsp; To say they were thrilled is an understatement.&nbsp; Kirsten also read your letter aloud to the class, and it was obvious your words really touched them.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I also wanted to tell you that we decided to leave the SamStone that was pictured in the photos I sent previously (in Kirsten&#39;s room) with the school secretary in the main office.&nbsp; She is a very favorite person of ours, and when I gave her the stone and told her the story, she shared with me that she lost her 16 yr. old son in a drive by shooting (many years ago).&nbsp; She said that she will really treasure the stone, and I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if she contacts you.&nbsp; Her name is Mrs. Yarber, and she is a dear, dear lady.&nbsp; I am attaching another photo of the class with their stones, and a picture of Kirsten with Mrs. Yarber (can you tell that Kirsten hasn&#39;t had much sleep?)&nbsp; By the way, Joseph, the little boy who&#39;s step father was killed on May 1, is in the front row right corner (wearing glasses).<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Blessings,<br \/>Brynn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/wendell%20smith.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wendell smith.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John &#8211;&nbsp;I meant to write you sooner, but have been so focused on helping Kirsten pack up her classroom, I forgot.&nbsp; Sorry.&nbsp; The box with the SamStones arrived on Monday, so on Tuesday we took them in to school.&nbsp; Kirsten photocopied the letter and card and we gave one to each of the kids, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":41.7069778,"longitude":-87.6058807,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}