Zoe came home for school one day and told me in a serious tone that “some babies are born with heart problems, and their parents can’t afford to pay for the surgery.” We should help them, she told me.\u00c2\u00a0As it turns out, her PE teacher had been talking to the children about heart health, as well as an opportunity to raise money to help those in need.<\/p>\n
And so, Zoe signed up for the “Jump Rope for Heart”<\/a> program, to raise funds for the American Heart Association. (Not sure about surgeries<\/em>, but the money\u00c2\u00a0does go\u00c2\u00a0towards cardiovascular research and educational programs.) She and her classmates are jump roping this week; if you’re interested in sponsoring her, her page is here<\/a>. And to those of\u00c2\u00a0you\u00c2\u00a0who have already done so: Thank you!<\/p>\n -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zoe came home for school one day and told me in a serious tone that “some babies are born with heart problems, and their parents can’t afford to pay for the surgery.” We should help them, she told me.\u00c2\u00a0As it turns out, her PE teacher had been talking to the children about heart health, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79-two-kids-jan-mar-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16052"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25210,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions\/25210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}