{"id":231,"date":"2015-06-09T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-06-11T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:14:32","slug":"231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Two Lifelong Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s an honor to have helped hundreds of clients buy and sell homes as a real estate agent during the last 10 years. I believe that home is much more than a place to live; it\u2019s where we rest and restore, love and laugh, eat and entertain. The heart and focal point of our home is the kitchen \u2013 where I often create meals that are tossed together quickly. Through the years, I have collected simple recipes, as well as those shared by family and friend and have compiled them in a recipe book \u2013 Heartfelt Fare: A Collection of Favorite Recipes from My Home to Yours<\/em> which is being distributed as a fundraiser for our philanthropic fund, The Kaplan Family Foundation which will help us give back to our community.<\/p>\n

We have selected four recipient organizations, each related to housing and all based in or around the Oak Grove area of Atlanta where we live. Ruffus Rescue<\/strong><\/a> helps find homes for dogs, including our beloved Oreo whom we adopt from Ruffus 5 years ago. One Good Deed<\/strong><\/a> promotes the concept of neighbor helping neighbor. Contribute 2 America<\/strong><\/a> caters to the homeless who live under the bridge at I-85 and North Druid Hills. Atlanta Hospital Hospitality House<\/strong><\/a> offers a “home away from home” to outpatients and relatives of patients hospitalized in 30 Atlanta area hospitals and medical facilities.<\/p>\n

To learn more about these recipient organizations or The Kaplan Family Foundation, please see our website www.thekaplanfamilyfoundation.org.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really exciting to see the book in print and I am deeply grateful to all who brought life to this book: my patient writing coach Wayne South Smith<\/strong><\/a>, PR pro\/photographer and long-time friend Karin Koser<\/strong><\/a>, talented watercolor artist Bekka Fulton<\/strong><\/a>, and the team at AlphaGraphics. We are distributing the books as gifts with the hope that a donation will be made to the Foundation or a favorite charity. Books will be available in our area or by contacting me directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s an honor to have helped hundreds of clients buy and sell homes as a real estate agent during the last 10 years. I believe that home is much more than a place to live; it\u2019s where we rest and restore, love and laugh, eat and entertain. The heart and focal point of our home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31,29,28,32,30],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaplan-family-foundation","tag-foundation","tag-heartfelt-fare","tag-kaplan-family-foundation","tag-nonprofit","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joankaplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}