{"id":63471,"date":"2017-09-15T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63471"},"modified":"2017-09-15T05:38:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:38:06","slug":"pa-britons-skipping-birthdays-over-lack-of-money-christian-charity-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63471","title":{"rendered":"(PA) Britons skipping birthdays over lack of money, Christian charity finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England&#8217;s social action charity has revealed that one in nine British adults missed out on celebrating a birthday or other special occasion last year because of a lack of money.<\/p>\n<p>The Church Urban Fund said more must be done to help hard-pressed Britons as figures from its food survey suggest almost a million adults used a food bank last year.<\/p>\n<p>The charity&#8217;s executive director Paul Hackwood said the results paint a &#8220;deeply troubling picture of food insecurity throughout Britain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He described the effects of such poverty as wide-reaching, adding: &#8220;Those affected don&#8217;t just go hungry or poorly nourished &#8211; they suffer isolation, are excluded from participating in social activities and experience considerable anxiety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierchristianradio.com\/News\/UK\/Britons-skipping-birthdays-over-lack-of-money-Christian-charity-finds\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England&#8217;s social action charity has revealed that one in nine British adults missed out on celebrating a birthday or other special occasion last year because of a lack of money. The Church Urban Fund said more must<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63471\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,149,199,593,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-personal-finance","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63473,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63471\/revisions\/63473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}