{"id":21636,"date":"2011-03-24T20:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T00:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=21636"},"modified":"2011-03-24T20:39:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T00:39:23","slug":"back-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/back-107\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11march\/backcandyth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>Candy Stripers<!--more--><br \/>\nby Barry Bauer<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11march\/backcandy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>David Wood and Norma Arens of Westphalia<\/em><br \/>\nThe Candy Stripers program was created in New Jersey in 1944 and reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s through 1980s. It was set up for girls ages 13 to 18 to give them an opportunity to learn and socialize while helping the regular nursing staff by delivering meals, packages, flowers, and mail, and providing TVs and radios to those who wanted them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11march\/backcandy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Luther Haviland of Laingsburg and Linda Droste of Westphalia<\/em><br \/>\nCandy stripers got their name from the red and white stripped uniforms they wore. They had to go through several weeks of training as well as getting health exams and TB test to protect the health of the patients.<br \/>\nThe program disappeared in the 1980s.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11march\/backcandy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Martha Wierman of Dewitt and Mrs. May Jupson of Dewitt<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candy Stripers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lookback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}