{"id":7607,"date":"2010-02-19T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/flashes-of-hope-3\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:12:00","slug":"flashes-of-hope-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/flashes-of-hope-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashes of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, I volunteered to do another shoot for <a href=http:\/\/www.flashesofhope.org\/  target=\"_blank\">Flashes of Hope<\/a>.  We were in the outpatient clinic and a ton of kids were signed up.  The Philadelphia Inquirer was there doing a story as well.  The reporter asked me why I volunteer to do these shoots.    I wanted to tell her that I felt called to do this.  That I wanted to give these families something to cherish no matter what the outcome.  But before I could,  this little 20 month old boy, who wasn&#8217;t even supposed to make it to his first birthday,  wrapped his sweet little arms around my neck and crawled up in my lap and just squeezed.   In that moment, I knew I didn&#8217;t have to tell the reporter why I did this.  She saw the fulfillment of what these shoots mean to me and those I do them for.   This is an amazing organization that I am proud to be associated with!  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/flash21.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Flash4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Flash11.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, I volunteered to do another shoot for Flashes of Hope. We were in the outpatient clinic and a ton of kids were signed up. The Philadelphia Inquirer was there doing a story as well. The reporter asked me why I volunteer to do these shoots. I wanted to tell her that I felt called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}