{"id":187,"date":"2011-07-03T22:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T04:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casashalom.net\/potters\/?p=187"},"modified":"2012-05-16T18:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:38:02","slug":"visitor-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Visitor Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"visiting_june2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/visiting_june2-298x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today was the monthly Visitor Sunday when the family members of the kids at Casa Shalom are able to visit the home. Many of the kids are at the orphanage due to extreme poverty, and these visitor sundays allows the kids to keep in contact with their parents. But there are also many kids who don\u2019t have anyone who ever visits them, and so this day can be hard for them.<\/p>\n<p>Yuli and I try to come as often as possible on Visitor Sundays in order to spend time with the kids who don\u2019t have any family. This month\u00a0<a title=\"Visiting Clara and her new baby\" href=\"http:\/\/casashalom.net\/potters\/?p=505\" target=\"_blank\">Clara<\/a>\u00a0came with us with her new baby, and her brother and sister were very excited to see their niece again.<\/p>\n<p>It was also great to see Nixon! He grew up at Casa Shalom and was one of the first guys that I was in charge of. He moved away from Casa Shalom about three years ago, and I haven\u2019t been able to see him since then. He still has a brother and sister at the home, and he came to visit them today. It was great to see how much he\u2019s grown and catch up with how he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>Yuli also prepares a bunch of sandwiches and snacks for the kids, and now they all beg her to bring her famous jello cake for dessert.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_606\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=606\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"visiting_june4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/visiting_june4-535x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Clara, Carlos &amp; Flora with baby Linda<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_605\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=605\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"visiting_june3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/visiting_june3-535x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch Time<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_603\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=603\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"visiting_june1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/visiting_june1-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s great to see Nixon again!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the monthly Visitor Sunday when the family members of the kids at Casa Shalom are able to visit the home. Many of the kids are at the orphanage due to extreme poverty, and these visitor sundays allows the kids to keep in contact with their parents. But there are also many kids who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visitor Sunday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tws0-31","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}