{"id":1,"date":"2009-06-23T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supportseniors.org\/blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-09-19T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:21:00","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/2009\/06\/23\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"After Two Months of Groundwork&#8230;It&#8217;s Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morningside Drive overlooks eastern Manhattan.\u00a0 And if you get there early enough in the morning, you can see the stunning, life-affirming sunrise over the treetops of the park.\u00a0 What better metaphor for our network of neighbors who are coming together to form a cadre of volunteers to help sustain our oldest community members?\u00a0 And, according to figures in our last census, there are just nearly 10,000 inhabitants in our twelve block zone.\u00a0 Thus, surely with so many of us living vertically, I think we can consider ourselves a literal village with impunity and, again, a metaphoric one, since we aim to do what is traditionally done all over the world: villages take care of their elders.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Board of <span title=\"Lifeforce in Later Years&trade;\"><span class=\"logo-LiLY   logo-LiLY-letter-L1\">L<\/span><span class=\"logo-LiLY   logo-LiLY-letter-i\" >i<\/span><span class=\"logo-LiLY   logo-LiLY-letter-L2\">L<\/span><span class=\"logo-LiLY   logo-LiLY-letter-Y\" >Y<\/span><\/span> chose the name <span style=\"font-weight:bold; font-style:italic\">Morningside Village<\/span> for our local program, but as of Thursday, June 25th, 2009, at 6pm, we expect that decision-making for the network will come from those who want to get involved.\u00a0 After talking with neighbors, with community leaders, with agencies, organizations, folks at the colleges, and shopkeepers in the area, I found a great willingness to help make Morningside Village a reality.\u00a0 So, with confidence and great enthusiasm I am looking forward to Thursday and to learning what other human resources exist in our community as we work out the nuts and bolts of our program together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morningside Drive overlooks eastern Manhattan.\u00a0 And if you get there early enough in the morning, you can see the stunning, life-affirming sunrise over the treetops of the park.\u00a0 What better metaphor for our network of neighbors who are coming together to form a cadre of volunteers to help sustain our oldest community members?\u00a0 And, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morningside-village-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}