{"id":58529,"date":"2019-11-27T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58529"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:47:09","slug":"when-the-mom-of-a-student-with-down-syndrome-dies-of-cancer-his-teacher-adopts-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/11\/27\/when-the-mom-of-a-student-with-down-syndrome-dies-of-cancer-his-teacher-adopts-him\/","title":{"rendered":"When the mom of a student with Down Syndrome dies of cancer, his teacher adopts him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jean Manning was a single mom to Jake, a boy with Down Syndrome. The duo had to shift to Massachusetts from Florida for Jean&#8217;s medical care. Fortunately, soon after they shifted, a school placement was found and Jake became settled into what would be his new normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s when Jean and Jake met Kerry Bremer &#8211; the teacher who would soon be a mom to the boy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I fell in love with him instantly,&#8221; Kerry told\u00a0WCVB. After talking with her husband, Kerry made Jean an offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Kerry Bremer came to Jeanie as an angel on earth and stepped up and offered to bring Jake into her family of five should Jeanie&#8217;s cancer win,&#8221; Jean&#8217;s friend\u00a0Cheryl said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 13, Jean took a nap after a chemotherapy treatment and never woke up. As promised, Kerry immediately picked up Jake and is now in the process of helping him cope with what will be his new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3560\/Teacher-Adopts-Student-With-Down-Syndrome-After-Mom-Dies-From-Cancer (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3560\/Teacher-Adopts-Student-With-Down-Syndrome-After-Mom-Dies-From-Cancer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3560\/Teacher-Adopts-Student-With-Down-Syndrome-After-Mom-Dies-From-Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Manning was a single mom to Jake, a boy with Down Syndrome. The duo had to shift to Massachusetts from Florida for Jean&#8217;s medical care. Fortunately, soon after they shifted, a school placement was found and Jake became settled into what would be his new normal. That&#8217;s when Jean and Jake met Kerry Bremer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58529","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\/58529","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=58529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}