{"id":6453,"date":"2020-12-15T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:38:11","slug":"december-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2020\/12\/15\/december-gift-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"December Gift Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistance League of Northern Virginia is pleased to report that we have again provided in both November and December four hundred $20 grocery gift cards to needy families in our community.\u00a0 The cards were delivered to the six schools that normally would have received our Weekend Food for Kids food bags.\u00a0 In addition, we were able to add a seventh school, which received 40 gift cards both months, thanks to our recent receipt of a grant.\u00a0 We know that families\u2019 resources are stretched even thinner now and we continue to receive expressions of gratitude from the families who received the gift cards.\u00a0 One school principal conveyed the appreciation of her school\u2019s families and noted that our \u201cgenerous donation of gift cards has helped families facing difficult times during the pandemic.\u201d\u00a0 She added:\u00a0 \u201cParents are truly appreciative of these cards and their smiles convey their thankfulness<em>.<\/em>\u201d \u00a0Since spring, we have distributed 3,680 gift cards, with a total value of $73,600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistance League of Northern Virginia is pleased to report that we have again provided in both November and December four hundred $20 grocery gift cards to needy families in our community.\u00a0 The cards were delivered to the six schools that normally would have received our Weekend Food for Kids food bags.\u00a0 In addition, we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30358,"featured_media":6452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}