{"id":3436,"date":"2014-12-23T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjameswatertown.org\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2015-01-08T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T23:51:10","slug":"christmas-giving-tree-thank-you-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/christmas-giving-tree-thank-you-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Giving Tree &#8211; Thank You To All!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all our Christmas angels who participated in our Giving Tree charity, and donated gifts for needy families through My Brother's Keeper, a Christian charity in Easton. \u00a0We received our biggest response to date, thanks to your generosity.<\/p>\n<p>On December 16th, ACYOA members traveled to \"Santa's Workshop\" at My Brother's Keeper to wrap and prepare the gift packages for area families. \u00a0They worked together with the local volunteers, carefully selecting gifts based on the person's wish list, age and gender. \u00a0They also\u00a0wrote Christmas greetings to the family members and prepared the items for delivery. \u00a0The evening ended with a group prayer and time for reflection on all the gifts and blessings which we have been given by Our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stjameswatertown\/sets\/72157649810370782\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view photos from the outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thank you to all our Christmas angels who participated in our Giving Tree charity, and donated gifts for needy families through My Brother's Keeper, a Christian charity in Easton. \u00a0We received our biggest response to date, thanks to your generosity. On December 16th, ACYOA members traveled to \"Santa's Workshop\" at My Brother's Keeper to wrap and prepare the gift packages&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/christmas-giving-tree-thank-you-to-all\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}