{"id":566,"date":"2017-12-19T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/?p=566"},"modified":"2018-02-01T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:56:17","slug":"james-junior-firefighter-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"James, Junior Firefighter &#8211; His Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-and-fire-engine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Young Firefighter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-and-fire-engine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James-and-fire-engine.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>James wanted to be a fire fighter. Here&#8217;s the story of how he became a member of the Northport, Maine Fire Department&#8217;s Junior Firefighter&#8217;s Program. It&#8217;s a real world example of how Jonno&#8217;s Place&#8217;s\u00a0 Camphill-inspired vision of fitting in can work for people of all abilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jame&#8217;s story begins with parents attentive to the interests of their son<\/strong>, who is on the autism\u00a0 spectrum. They recognized James&#8217; desire to become involved\u00a0 in fire fighting.\u00a0 They met with Northport Fire Chief Paul Rooney and the rest is James&#8217; Story as told in <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/247656500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video<\/a> . The video was produced by Ned Lightner for <em>Somewhere in Waldo County<\/em> <em>as Jonno&#8217;s Place update<\/em> and is available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3645923\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Belfast Community Media&#8217;s Vimeo channel<\/a> along with an <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/151525287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier interview about Jonno&#8217;s Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/247656500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-567 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fire-chief.jpg\" alt=\"James' Story Video\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fire-chief.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fire-chief-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNed Lightner interviewing Fire Chief\u00a0 Paul Rooeny in Northport, Maine. Click the image to view the entire video interview and learn James&#8217; story and more on the history and mission of Jonno&#8217;s Place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jonnos-james.jpg\" alt=\"James Jr. Firefighter\" width=\"601\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jonnos-james.jpg 601w, https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jonnos-james-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James wanted to be a fire fighter. Here&#8217;s the story of how he became a member of the Northport, Maine Fire Department&#8217;s Junior Firefighter&#8217;s Program. It&#8217;s a real world example of how Jonno&#8217;s Place&#8217;s\u00a0 Camphill-inspired vision of fitting in can work for people of all abilities. Jame&#8217;s story begins with parents attentive to the interests &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/?p=566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James, Junior Firefighter &#8211; His Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnosplace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}