{"id":1119,"date":"2017-12-27T06:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T06:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2017-12-27T06:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T06:57:17","slug":"this-grandmom-with-dementia-snuggled-up-to-mall-santa-making-him-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2017\/12\/27\/this-grandmom-with-dementia-snuggled-up-to-mall-santa-making-him-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"This grandmom with dementia snuggled up to mall Santa, making him cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Rangel was diagnosed\u00a0with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2014, but she instantly recognized her all-time favorite Santa when she recently met him at a mall. Karen has\u00a0been a super-fan her whole life and would even \u201cflirt with him\u201d as an adult when she still lived on her own. She even\u00a0has a special Santa doll she sleeps with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She doesn\u2019t talk too much these days, but enjoys speaking to her Santa doll in Japanese,&#8221; revealed her loving family.\u00a0So, they specially arranged for her to meet with Santa at the New Mexico studio on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time Santa got close to her, she would nuzzle in and close her eyes as if there was no place she would rather be. It was so sweet and emotional for Santa and our whole staff,\u201d wrote\u00a0Hartsocks\u2019 Photography on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Santa held it together through the shoot, but when he saw her walk out the door, he cried.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/86-year-old-woman-with-dementia-warms-up-to-santa-and-makes-him-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/86-year-old-woman-with-dementia-warms-up-to-santa-and-makes-him-cry\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Rangel was diagnosed\u00a0with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2014, but she instantly recognized her all-time favorite Santa when she recently met him at a mall. Karen has\u00a0been a super-fan her whole life and would even \u201cflirt with him\u201d as an adult when she still lived on her own. She even\u00a0has a special Santa doll she sleeps with. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}