{"id":2768,"date":"2016-01-20T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/?page_id=2768"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:04:14","slug":"bears-for-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/philanthropic-programs\/bears-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/12\/Small-Bears.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/12\/Small-Bears.jpg\" alt=\"small-bears\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/12\/Small-Bears.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/12\/Small-Bears-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/12\/Small-Bears-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Bears for Children<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Since 1988 Assistance League of Norman members have provided cuddly bears to children in the community who are in the midst of a crisis or facing a traumatic event.\u00a0 Bears are distributed to children through local agencies such as the Norman Police Department, and Food and Shelter for Friends.<\/p>\n<p>This year alone we have delivered 430 snugly friends to homeless, injured, and\/or traumatized children.<\/p>\n<p>Norman police officers keep a stash of bears in the trunk of their patrol cars and share them at their discretion.\u00a0 A bus full of students involved in a traffic collision this year were given animals to hug.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Bears for Children Since 1988 Assistance League of Norman members have provided cuddly bears to children in the community who are in the midst of a crisis or facing a traumatic event.\u00a0 Bears are distributed to children through local agencies such as the Norman Police Department, and Food and Shelter for Friends. This year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":980,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2768","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2768\/revisions\/5489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/norman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}