{"id":6579,"date":"2019-07-27T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:53:30","slug":"kiers-kidz-and-songs-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6579","title":{"rendered":"Kier&#8217;s Kidz and Songs of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCTR7-25-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CCTR7-25-19-2-1024x635.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6581\" width=\"512\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CCTR7-25-19-2-1024x635.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CCTR7-25-19-2-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CCTR7-25-19-2-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CCTR7-25-19-2-150x93.png 150w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CCTR7-25-19-2.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>click pic for podcast<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Perfetti, President of Kier&#8217;s Kidz, a 501(c)3 charitable organization in Highland Park, NJ, dedicated to helping children with cancer and their families and supporting childhood cancer research, joins us along with Caroline Kratka, Genetics major at Rutger&#8217;s University Honors College, who serves on Kier&#8217;s Kids Advisory Board and shares about youth engagement and advocacy with the foundation. Kier&#8217;s Kids was inspired by the hopes and dreams of Larry&#8217;s daughter Kiersten who succumbed to alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma when she was just 22.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songs of Love President John Beltzer also joins us to share about the healing gift of music that is his organization&#8217;s mission, also a 501(c)3 charity, dedicated to uplifting the spirits of children with life-threatening illness or permanent disability.&nbsp; Artists from around the world create professionally produced songs in the child&#8217;s favorite genre, including aspects of the child&#8217;s life, hopes, dreams, and likes.   Beltzer&#8217;s work is inspired by his musically talented twin brother, Julio, who died in 1984.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Perfetti, President of Kier&#8217;s Kidz, a 501(c)3 charitable organization in Highland Park, NJ, dedicated to helping children with cancer and their families and supporting childhood cancer research, joins us along with Caroline Kratka, Genetics major at Rutger&#8217;s University Honors College, who serves on Kier&#8217;s Kids Advisory Board and shares\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6579\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","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=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}