{"id":2472,"date":"2013-05-22T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2013-05-23T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T01:05:29","slug":"a-tale-of-lemonade-and-the-boys-from-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/a-tale-of-lemonade-and-the-boys-from-clare\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Lemonade and the Boys from Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2483\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/972156_10201112995657398_1472114022_n.jpeg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2483 \" title=\"A picture of Stella\u2019s sign. (She\u2019s in kindergarten.)\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/972156_10201112995657398_1472114022_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/972156_10201112995657398_1472114022_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/972156_10201112995657398_1472114022_n-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/972156_10201112995657398_1472114022_n.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of kindergartener Stella\u2019s sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;My girls and a friend from school had a little lemonade stand outside our house on Sunday afternoon. Their friend\u2019s mom [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2013\/05\/hadley_town_clerk_home_from_ho.html\">Jessica Spanknebel<\/a>]\u00a0recently suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm, and they started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/2q6ma8?utm_campaign=Emails&amp;utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email\">\u201cReading for Recovery\u201d<\/a> fundraiser at their school.\u00a0 They wanted to sell lemonade to raise a bit more.\u00a0 It\u2019s a tough street for a lemonade stand, especially on a cloudy day\u2014no takers. That was until our fabulous Clare boys and their friends from other dorms bought cup after cup lemonade (at 10 cents a cup), and helped the girls raise nearly $8 that afternoon.\u00a0 (The girls&#8217; efforts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReadingforRecovery?ref=hl\">the literacy fundraiser<\/a> topped $2,000.) \u00a0The boys drank lemonade, sat, and chatted with the girls.\u00a0 It was another example of the character around here\u2014it meant the world to all three girls!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Sue\u00a0Michalski, language teacher and Clare dorm head<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Reading for Recovery effort on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReadingforRecovery?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/2q6ma8?utm_campaign=Emails&amp;utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email\">GoFundMe<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/13417_10201112611967806_939306161_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2484\" title=\"Williston's Clare boys buying lemonade\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/13417_10201112611967806_939306161_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/13417_10201112611967806_939306161_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/05\/13417_10201112611967806_939306161_n.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My girls and a friend from school had a little lemonade stand outside our house on Sunday afternoon. Their friend\u2019s mom [Jessica Spanknebel]\u00a0recently suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm, and they started a \u201cReading for Recovery\u201d fundraiser at their school.\u00a0 They wanted to sell lemonade to raise a bit more.\u00a0 It\u2019s a tough street for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/a-tale-of-lemonade-and-the-boys-from-clare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Tale of Lemonade and the Boys from Clare<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}