{"id":944,"date":"2012-02-24T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-03-05T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T06:10:05","slug":"wish-week-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/2012\/02\/24\/wish-week-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"WISH WEEK 2012…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I checked, and I’m surprised that neither my mom nor I have really blogged about Wish Week (granted, both of have made references to it: http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/make-a-wish-granted\/<\/a>) but I think it’s very worth explaining, so here it goes:<\/p>\n

For the past 3 years at Rock Canyon, the students have gotten together and raised money for one week in order to grant a wish for a child of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.<\/p>\n

The first year, Harvey, age 17, wanted to become a pro photographer while she still had the time. They asked us to raise about $10,000. We raised $17,000. It was an emotional event and everyone was impressed by the amount of participation we had.<\/p>\n

The second year we granted 10-year-old Taylor’s wish to go to the Coral Reef (his favorite movie was Finding Nemo<\/em> and he wanted to see where it took place). We were well aware that a school near ours had up-ed us and raised $17,000. Our goal was 20. In just one week, our high school managed to raise $41,215.17! We nearly doubled the national record of a little less than $25,000!<\/p>\n

By this year’s Wish Week, if you asked any random Rock Canyon student what their favorite time of the year was, they’d answer Wish Week. But of course, $41,000 dollars is hard to beat. We all pulled together, went to every fundraiser and raised money in the classes. $43,486.24. One week. It was the most sincere, loving, and powerful assembly I have ever gone to. We granted 5-year-old Natalie’s wish to go to Disney World with her family.<\/p>\n

Wish Week is a way for our school to unite and show everyone, including ourselves, just how much we care and how much we can do.<\/p>\n

~Courtney<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I checked, and I’m surprised that neither my mom nor I have really blogged about Wish Week (granted, both of have made references to it: http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/make-a-wish-granted\/) but I think it’s very worth explaining, so here it goes: For the past 3 years at Rock Canyon, the students have gotten together and raised money for one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}