{"id":6139,"date":"2014-11-14T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2014-11-14T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:44:01","slug":"emergency-of-hunger-food-drive-kicks-off-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/emergency-of-hunger-food-drive-kicks-off-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency of Hunger food drive kicks off this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=F2MzRwcTpn9G1D9kLrUS8X3C_ecb2gbc&amp;pbid=3c1df42a0ea4920b9489cfaaf8aec88\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/foxct.com\/2014\/11\/13\/emergency-of-hunger-food-drive-kicks-off-this-weekend\/\"><span class=\"posted-time\">POSTED 5:28 PM, NOVEMBER 13, 2014, BY SAMANTHA SCHOENFELD AND MIKE KRAFCIK, <\/span><span class=\"updated-time\">UPDATED AT 06:53PM, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 at Fox CT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foxct.com\/2014\/11\/13\/emergency-of-hunger-food-drive-kicks-off-this-weekend\/\">Article and video appears on <strong>Fox CT<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">VERNON\u2013 Food drives are now kicking off for the holiday season, and this year there\u2019s additional need for help in Connecticut cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many who oversee food drives in suburban towns and more affluent parts of the state say the need for food assistance is continuing to increase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Vernon Thursday afternoon, a kick-off ceremony was held for the sixth annual Emergency of Hunger Food Drive. Fire officials, police, EMS, hospital staff, Rotary and others are participating to help make a difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the last five seasons the drive has garnered 147,000 food and personal care items, 4,710 turkeys and more than $96,000 in cash, checks and gift cards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, fire, police and first responders personally helped to collect 25,000 food items and more than $10,000 in cash and gift cards for many suburban families in need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foxct.com\/2014\/11\/13\/emergency-of-hunger-food-drive-kicks-off-this-weekend\/\">Read the full article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSTED 5:28 PM, NOVEMBER 13, 2014, BY SAMANTHA SCHOENFELD AND MIKE KRAFCIK, UPDATED AT 06:53PM, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 at Fox CT Article and video appears on Fox CT.\u00a0 VERNON\u2013 Food drives are now kicking off for the holiday season, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/emergency-of-hunger-food-drive-kicks-off-this-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,117,1,119],"tags":[357,110,18,437],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}