{"id":1467,"date":"2023-11-08T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:29:46","slug":"meet-your-november-resident-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/resident-of-the-month\/meet-your-november-resident-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our November Resident of the Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

Say hello to Lewis Jasper, our Resident of the Month.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Mr. Jasper was born in South Philadelphia, one of three children, and came from a musical family. His father was an undertaker and a jazz musician; his mother worked as a dressmaker and had a beautiful singing voice. One grandmother played the organ in church, a grandfather played the drums, and an uncle was a dancer. Mr. Lewis himself didn\u2019t start playing the piano until he was in his twenties, saying \u201cI never knew what I wanted to do, but I was crazy about music. All my friends were into music in some type of way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He met his wife, Catherine, on a blind date. She was a model who worked shows for Bonwit Teller, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Wanamaker\u2019s. He learned later from Catherine that she was reluctant to go out with him at first, telling her friend, \u201cI\u2019ve seen him but I don\u2019t like him.\u201d Her friend replied, \u201cIf you don\u2019t go out with him, I\u2019m not going to do you any more favors!\u201d<\/p>\n

Needless to say, that first date went well and they just recently celebrated their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary. They had two daughters, one of whom passed in 2012. The rules for raising them were: Church number one, teach them right, and try to pick good company for them. Mr. Lewis acknowledges that the last rule doesn\u2019t usually work because \u201c\u2026kids pick who they want to be friends with.\u201d He admits to being a little disappointed that none of his children took to music, saying, \u201cI was mad, but I understood that it was their lives.\u201d Mr. Lewis\u2019 daughter Irene says that while the musical gene skipped her generation, happily it has returned with the current crop of grandkids.<\/p>\n

His words of advice to children (and parents) today: \u201cListen to your parents\u2026at times\u2026because sometimes parents don\u2019t understand young people. Times change so much.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say hello to Lewis Jasper, our Resident of the Month. Mr. Jasper was born in South Philadelphia, one of three children, and came from a musical family. His father was an undertaker and a jazz musician; his mother worked as a dressmaker and had a beautiful singing voice. One grandmother played the organ in church, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_canvas","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/72.167.41.232\/~renaissancehcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}