{"id":6212,"date":"2014-12-23T13:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2014-12-23T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:54:26","slug":"state-police-bring-toys-to-kids-in-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/state-police-bring-toys-to-kids-in-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police Bring Toys to Kids in the Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=286590571&amp;videoID=9Nu1hn7OMxRm&amp;origin=nbcconnecticut.com&amp;sec=news&amp;subsec=local&amp;width=600&amp;height=360\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BY AMANDA RAUS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday, Dec 22, 2014 \u2022 Updated at 5:16 PM EST NBC Connecticut<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The look of pure joy on a child\u2019s face melts the hearts of veteran troopers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is a good day. We wish every day could be Christmas,\u201d said Lt. Col. Butch Hyatt of the Connecticut State Police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State troopers went door-to-door at Connecticut Children&#8217;s Medical Center in Hartford on Monday, handing out toys to children in the hospital&#8217;s emergency department. From Barbie dolls to blocks, the wish lists were covered, and troopers raised more than $20,000 thanks to the generosity of people around the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEvery toy you see, and all the dollars in the check, come from the public from their hearts, so these children can have a good Christmas,\u201d said Hyatt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the toy giveaway isn&#8217;t limited to Christmas. State police, the Ambulance Service of Manchester and Aetna Ambulance collect toys around the holidays as part of an 18-year tradition and hand them out year round. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/State-Police-Hand-Out-Toys-to-Kids-in-the-Hospital-286594181.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CTBrand\">Read the full article here..<\/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>BY AMANDA RAUS Monday, Dec 22, 2014 \u2022 Updated at 5:16 PM EST NBC Connecticut The look of pure joy on a child\u2019s face melts the hearts of veteran troopers. \u201cThis is a good day. We wish every day could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/state-police-bring-toys-to-kids-in-the-hospital\/\">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":[116,117,43],"tags":[357,128,130,667,132],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212"}],"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=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}