{"id":15843,"date":"2015-03-01T16:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/2015\/03\/01\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:05:36","slug":"a-brother-of-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brother of a Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ed. A. Aponte, Sr.&nbsp; <\/strong><br><strong>RC, South East Region<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with a mournful heart that I write to you to inform you of the passing of Owen Halpern, the younger brother of Alan Halpern.&nbsp;Owen was remembered by members of his family at a lovely service graveside at Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday, January 25. \u200bPlease keep Alan Halpern and his family in your prayers as they mourn their loss. \u200bHalpern has been a committed member of our circle for many years and will surely benefit from our support.&nbsp;Feel free to reach out to Halpern.&nbsp; I will forward his contact information to anyone needing it. &nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. A. Aponte, Sr.&nbsp; RC, South East Region It is with a mournful heart that I write to you to inform you of the passing of Owen Halpern, the younger brother of Alan Halpern.&nbsp;Owen was remembered by members of his family at a lovely service graveside at Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday, January 25. \u200bPlease keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Brother of a Brother - MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams<\/title>\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.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Brother of a Brother - MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ed. A. Aponte, Sr.&nbsp; RC, South East Region It is with a mournful heart that I write to you to inform you of the passing of Owen Halpern, the younger brother of Alan Halpern.&nbsp;Owen was remembered by members of his family at a lovely service graveside at Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday, January 25. \u200bPlease keep [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-01T21:41:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-21T14:05:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Guest Writer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Guest Writer\" \/>\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\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Guest Writer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c4c526dcf5afec353c5d87667345fb88\"},\"headline\":\"A Brother of a Brother\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-01T21:41:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-21T14:05:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\"},\"wordCount\":114,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Archive\",\"Honoring Our Own\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\",\"name\":\"A Brother of a Brother - MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-01T21:41:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-21T14:05:36+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":550},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Brother of a Brother\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/\",\"name\":\"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams\",\"description\":\"Mentor - Discover - Inspire - Men&#039;s Teams\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo-mdi.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo-mdi.svg\",\"width\":241,\"height\":109,\"caption\":\"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c4c526dcf5afec353c5d87667345fb88\",\"name\":\"Guest Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2afca1a9600091c243a0cc80dfc983?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2afca1a9600091c243a0cc80dfc983?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Guest Writer\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/author\/guestwriter\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Brother of a Brother - MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams","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.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Brother of a Brother - MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams","og_description":"Ed. A. Aponte, Sr.&nbsp; RC, South East Region It is with a mournful heart that I write to you to inform you of the passing of Owen Halpern, the younger brother of Alan Halpern.&nbsp;Owen was remembered by members of his family at a lovely service graveside at Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday, January 25. \u200bPlease keep [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/","og_site_name":"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams","article_published_time":"2015-03-01T21:41:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-04-21T14:05:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":550,"url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Guest Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Guest Writer","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/"},"author":{"name":"Guest Writer","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c4c526dcf5afec353c5d87667345fb88"},"headline":"A Brother of a Brother","datePublished":"2015-03-01T21:41:59+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-21T14:05:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/"},"wordCount":114,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg","articleSection":["Archive","Honoring Our Own"],"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/","name":"A Brother of a Brother - MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg","datePublished":"2015-03-01T21:41:59+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-21T14:05:36+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg","width":1080,"height":550},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/a-brother-of-a-brother\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A Brother of a Brother"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/","name":"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams","description":"Mentor - Discover - Inspire - Men&#039;s Teams","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#organization","name":"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams","url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo-mdi.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo-mdi.svg","width":241,"height":109,"caption":"MDI - Mentoring men to live with excellence - Men&#039;s Teams"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c4c526dcf5afec353c5d87667345fb88","name":"Guest Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2afca1a9600091c243a0cc80dfc983?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2afca1a9600091c243a0cc80dfc983?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Guest Writer"},"url":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/author\/guestwriter\/"}]}},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg",1080,550,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives-300x153.jpg",300,153,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives-768x391.jpg",768,391,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives-1024x521.jpg",1024,521,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg",1080,550,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legacyarchives.jpg",1080,550,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Guest Writer","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/author\/guestwriter\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ed. A. Aponte, Sr.&nbsp; RC, South East Region It is with a mournful heart that I write to you to inform you of the passing of Owen Halpern, the younger brother of Alan Halpern.&nbsp;Owen was remembered by members of his family at a lovely service graveside at Greenwood Cemetery on Sunday, January 25. \u200bPlease keep&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18061,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15843\/revisions\/18061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}