{"id":2606,"date":"2013-03-07T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2014-12-26T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:06:18","slug":"update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence’s Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York\u2019s Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s longtime friendship with Andy Strunk<\/a>, a young man with Down Syndrome that she met in church many years ago. Now the local TV station in Louisville, Kentucky \u2013 WAVE3 \u2013 has given Andy his own moment in the spotlight in a feature story about his friendship with the Hollywood star. Andy even calls Jennifer on the air, and she describes as one of the kindest, funniest people she\u2019s ever been around.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be hard pressed to find a sweeter story today (H\/T to Marci Golen):<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York\u2019s Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s longtime friendship with Andy Strunk, a young man with Down Syndrome that she met in church many years ago. Now the local TV station in Louisville, Kentucky \u2013 WAVE3 \u2013 has given Andy his own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40,55],"tags":[110,105,111],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-syndrome","category-inspiration","category-movies","tag-down-syndrome","tag-films","tag-inspiration"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence's Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York's Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's longtime friendship with Andy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence's Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York's Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's longtime friendship with Andy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Christopher Closeup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-07T14:58:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-12-26T16:06:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tony Rossi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tony Rossi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/\",\"name\":\"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence's Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-07T14:58:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-12-26T16:06:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#\/schema\/person\/9215d33862959dfe2334a97a802ebf1d\"},\"description\":\"The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York's Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's longtime friendship with Andy\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence’s Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/\",\"name\":\"Christopher Closeup\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#\/schema\/person\/9215d33862959dfe2334a97a802ebf1d\",\"name\":\"Tony Rossi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ef58b23d79989facf5779819377620d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ef58b23d79989facf5779819377620d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tony Rossi\"},\"description\":\"After graduating from St. John's University in New York with degrees in Communications and English, Tony Rossi found a job at the Catholic media organization, The Christophers, that allowed him to indulge his interest in religion, media, and pop culture. He served as The Christophers' TV producer for 11 years, and is currently the host and producer of the organization's radio show\/podcast Christopher Closeup, writer and editor of their syndicated Light One Candle column, and producer\/scriptwriter of the annual Christopher Awards ceremony.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/author\/tonyrossi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence's Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight","description":"The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York's Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's longtime friendship with Andy","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence's Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight","og_description":"The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York's Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's longtime friendship with Andy","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/","og_site_name":"Christopher Closeup","article_published_time":"2013-03-07T14:58:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-12-26T16:06:18+00:00","author":"Tony Rossi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tony Rossi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/","name":"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence's Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-03-07T14:58:54+00:00","dateModified":"2014-12-26T16:06:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#\/schema\/person\/9215d33862959dfe2334a97a802ebf1d"},"description":"The other day I posted some excerpts from a story in New York's Daily News about Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's longtime friendship with Andy","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/03\/update-jennifer-lawrences-friend-with-down-syndrome-gets-his-own-moment-in-the-spotlight\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UPDATE: Jennifer Lawrence’s Friend with Down Syndrome Gets His Own Moment in the Spotlight"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/","name":"Christopher Closeup","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#\/schema\/person\/9215d33862959dfe2334a97a802ebf1d","name":"Tony Rossi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ef58b23d79989facf5779819377620d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ef58b23d79989facf5779819377620d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tony Rossi"},"description":"After graduating from St. John's University in New York with degrees in Communications and English, Tony Rossi found a job at the Catholic media organization, The Christophers, that allowed him to indulge his interest in religion, media, and pop culture. He served as The Christophers' TV producer for 11 years, and is currently the host and producer of the organization's radio show\/podcast Christopher Closeup, writer and editor of their syndicated Light One Candle column, and producer\/scriptwriter of the annual Christopher Awards ceremony.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/author\/tonyrossi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}