{"id":266803,"date":"2017-12-20T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=266803"},"modified":"2017-12-20T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:06:12","slug":"make-wish-sends-off-wish-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/make-wish-sends-off-wish-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Make-A-Wish sends off a wish child"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_266806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266806\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Make-pix-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Make-pix-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266806\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-266806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Make-A-Wish Guam and NMI Chapter hosted a send off party for wish child Kei\u2019ani Hofschneider, third from the left, last Monday at the Summer Snow Cafe located in Susupe. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Make-A-Wish Guam and NMI Chapter sent off a wish child to fulfill her lifelong dream of visiting Disney World in Orlando, Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Board members of the non-profit group hosted a small send-off party at the Summer Snow Caf\u00e9 yesterday for wish child Kei\u2019ani Hofschneider. <\/p>\n<p>According to the chapter\u2019s board member Kanae Quinn, Hofschneider is about the 10th or 11th child who was granted a wish in 2017 for both Guam and the NMI. <\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider will be leaving for Disney World with her mother, sister, and her cousins on Friday where she will also meet with her father for the holidays. <\/p>\n<p>The chapter\u2019s board member, Eleanor Cabrera, said the organization would spend approximately $7,500 on Hofschneider\u2019s trip all together. <\/p>\n<p>According to Hofschneider, she is beyond excited to finally have her wish granted of bringing her loved ones with her to Disney World. <\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider said she is thankful that she was given an opportunity like this by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>Hofschneder\u2019s mother, Sirena Santos, said she felt blessed that despite her daughter\u2019s condition, there are foundations like Make-A-Wish that gives children liker her daughter these kinds of opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt reminds her that there are great things out there in life on the hard days that she has to deal with,\u201d said Santos. <\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider is 8 years old and has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Make-A-Wish Guam and NMI Chapter sent off a wish child to fulfill her lifelong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":266806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19515,7790,19313,19516],"class_list":["post-266803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-disney-world","tag-kanae-quinn","tag-sirena-santos","tag-summer-snow-caf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}