{"id":6444,"date":"2019-03-20T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2019-03-20T04:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:35:21","slug":"barbara-salzman-and-the-jester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6444","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Salzman and The Jester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CCTR3-14-19-1024x635.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6445\" width=\"406\" height=\"252\"\/><figcaption>click for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"p (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCTR3-14-19\" target=\"_blank\">p<\/a>odcast <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Saltzman joins us from Palos Verdes CA, home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejester.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Jester &amp; Pharley\u2122 Phund (opens in a new tab)\">The Jester &amp; Pharley\u2122 Phund<\/a>, the charity that grew out of her late son David\u2019s best-selling children\u2019s book, &#8220;The Jester Has Lost His Jingle.&#8221;  David created The Jester as his senior project at Yale before his death from cancer in 1990 at 22. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David&#8217;s book has been making a difference in thousands of children\u2019s lives for 23 years.  Founded in the year 2000, the non-profit Jester &amp; Pharley Phund developed from the overwhelming national response to the illustrated children&#8217;s book, which has been honored with multiple awards of national acclaim for it&#8217;s programs for literacy and ill children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before his death from cancer at the age of 22 in 1990, David&#8217;s family promised him that his book would be published as he had envisioned and that its universal message of hope, laughter and self-empowerment would be shared with children coping with cancer and other illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Saltzman joins us from Palos Verdes CA, home of The Jester &amp; Pharley\u2122 Phund, the charity that grew out of her late son David\u2019s best-selling children\u2019s book, &#8220;The Jester Has Lost His Jingle.&#8221; David created The Jester as his senior project at Yale before his death from cancer in\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6444\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,72],"tags":[1721,890,1723,588,1725,1730,1722,1728,1724,1726,1727,1729],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cctalkradio","category-editorial","tag-barbara-salzman","tag-children-with-cancer","tag-david-salzman","tag-hope","tag-illustrated-childrens-book","tag-literacy","tag-self-emppowerment","tag-senior-project","tag-the-jester-and-pharley-phund","tag-the-jester-has-lost-his-jingle","tag-universal-message","tag-yale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}