{"id":120,"date":"2015-04-08T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2015-04-08T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:09:01","slug":"a-million-dollar-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"A Million Dollar Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;It is with great sadness that I inform you that Mater Dei Prep will close at the end of this school year, June 2015.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jim-shaw-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jim-shaw\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>And Jim Shaw said, <em><strong>\u201cNo one is closing my\u00a0Alma\u00a0Mater, no one is closing my daughter\u2019s Alma Mater &amp; no one is closing\u00a0another Catholic school.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> They gave him 2 months to raise $1,000,000. He did it with 3 weeks to spare! The Seraphs are here to stay! Declan\u2019s daughter, Steve McCarthy\u2019s daughter, my daughter and hundreds of families and future alumni do not have to find another high school. And our own Jim Shaw is the reason.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot make this story up. Many are honored to call Jim our brother. He is a hero today. I am grateful to have been able to witness such a feat. The students learned such an incredible life lesson. The teachers and staff are not unemployed. You do not need to be an AOH member or a St. Mary\u2019s parishioner to appreciate the magnitude of what he and his band of volunteers have accomplished. And they were honoring Jimmy at this year\u2019s convention before he even began his latest (and greatest) pilgrimage for Catholic education. And he still makes time to pipe, dance and work!! Talk about time management. The dancing still needs some work but we will give him the benefit of the doubt for once!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is with great sadness that I inform you that Mater Dei Prep will close at the end of this school year, June 2015.\u201d And Jim Shaw said, \u201cNo one is closing my\u00a0Alma\u00a0Mater, no one is closing my daughter\u2019s Alma&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/?p=120\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-of-the-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njaohdiv2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}