{"id":1651,"date":"2018-01-31T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shield.org\/?post_type=events&#038;p=820"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:51:09","slug":"sesame-street-donates-elmo-piano","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/events\/sesame-street-donates-elmo-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street Donates Elmo Piano!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could be better? A crowd of our fabulous children&#8230;a one-of-a-kind hand-painted Elmo piano&#8230; plush \u2018Julia\u2019 dolls for everyone&#8230;all combined with talented performers from Sesame Street!<\/p>\n<p>It was a truly special day at The Shield as you will see in the photo album above.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, January 26, Sesame Street\u2019s \u2018Sing for Hope\u2019 program, which creates gorgeous hand-painted pianos for schools, delivered the first ELMO piano to our school in Flushing, along with the Julia dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Julia, made her debut in 2015, as the first Sesame Street character to have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She is part of Sesame\u2019s \u2018See Amazing in All Children\u2019 initiative and she is close friends with Elmo and Abby.<\/p>\n<p>Our Elmo piano was painted by Sesame\u2019s Creative Director of Character Design, Louis Mitchell, who was on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, singing songs and handing out of Julia dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Our Principal, Sally Moradoff, was thrilled and in full Elmo mode. Our teachers, staff, students and the Sesame Street gang had a blast. Enjoy the photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could be better? A crowd of our fabulous children\u2026a one-of-a-kind hand-painted Elmo piano\u2026 plush \u2018Julia\u2019 dolls for everyone\u2026all combined with talented performers from Sesame Street!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1651","events","type-events","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1651\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/Shield-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}