{"id":4708,"date":"2012-08-25T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2012-08-25T18:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:05:52","slug":"saturday-andrea-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/08\/25\/saturday-andrea-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday &#8211;  Andrea Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donatelifefloat.org\/prod\/components\/images\/dphoto_D360A_AndreaCarter.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center>Today was something like the 22nd annual Andrea Carter memorial alumni soccer tournament at MMU. The\u00a0 tournament is held every year in honor of Andrea (aka Anna) Carter who died in a traffic accident only a mile from her home back in 1990.\u00a0 Andrea was an organ donor.. like Sam, her organs saved the lives of several other people.<\/p>\n<p>Since then , Andrea&#8217;s dad, Jim has been a tireless promoter of organ donation awareness. He has a great program that lines up with drivers ed that tells folks about the importance of signing their donor intent lines on their drivers license.\u00a0 Diane, Gabe and I went with Jim once to the drivers ed class at MMU.. then I went one more time at Essex. Jim does a great job with the drivers ed kids ,, for such a touch topic, Jim makes the presentation very upbeat. He talks about Andrea, of course.. then he holds up a soda bottle and makes the analogy of recycling.. The really powerful thing Jim does is to take organ recipients with him to talk about the very positive difference that organ donation can make in the world. Jim rode on\u00a0 the\u00a0 &#8216;<a href=\"Rose Bowl's\" target=\"_blank\">Donate Life&#8217;<\/a> float in the Rose Bowl in 2009\u00a0 in Andrea&#8217;s memory..<\/p>\n<p>These memorial stones are out on the ports fields at the school . I look at them often.. They&#8217;re about 10 feet apart.. I really like the message\u00a0 between the two stones..\u00a0\u00a0 Organ donation really is about sharing. .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2512\/IMG_4832.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2512\/IMG_4829.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The game itself was nice, too.. it was the current varsity soccer team vs. all alumni.. the alums won 3 to 2.. and everyone had a good time..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2512\/IMG_4823.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2512\/IMG_4826.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2512\/IMG_4827.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ok.. we&#8217;re going out now.. more tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was something like the 22nd annual Andrea Carter memorial alumni soccer tournament at MMU. The\u00a0 tournament is held every year in honor of Andrea (aka Anna) Carter who died in a traffic accident only a mile from her home back in 1990.\u00a0 Andrea was an organ donor.. like Sam, her organs saved the lives &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/08\/25\/saturday-andrea-carter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday &#8211;  Andrea Carter<\/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_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-andrea-carter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}