{"id":66137,"date":"2017-12-09T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66137"},"modified":"2017-12-09T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T16:56:01","slug":"inspiring-story-from-the-front-page-of-the-local-paper-recovering-addict-gives-hundreds-of-coats-hot-meals-to-needy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66137","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Story from the front page of the local paper&#8211;Recovering addict gives hundreds of coats, hot meals to needy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda Lopez grew tired of seeing children shivering at the bus stops. <\/p>\n<p>She set aside a couple thousand dollars and purchased hundreds of brand-new coats. With the help of local organizations, she assembled 250 hot meals, 200 turkeys and boxes of canned food, and put it all out on display Friday in a North Charleston parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez worried the frigid rain would keep people away. But within hours, all of the food and most of the clothes were gone. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is blowing my mind,&#8221; Lopez said. &#8220;So many people need hats, coats, gloves, boxed food. Basic things.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/recovering-addict-gives-hundreds-of-coats-hot-meals-to-needy\/article_08e8cdec-dc52-11e7-92e1-d78591dda747.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Recovering addict gives hundreds of coats, hot meals to needy on Remount Road <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbOuGZF5jh\">https:\/\/t.co\/tbOuGZF5jh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chsnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#chsnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KPgW5Xzcga\">pic.twitter.com\/KPgW5Xzcga<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/939479755241545728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda Lopez grew tired of seeing children shivering at the bus stops. She set aside a couple thousand dollars and purchased hundreds of brand-new coats. With the help of local organizations, she assembled 250 hot meals, 200 turkeys and boxes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66137\">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":[54,441,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-stewardship","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66137","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=66137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66140,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66137\/revisions\/66140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}