{"id":6231,"date":"2010-04-22T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/thanks-to-kent-parishes-for-helping-the-needy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:50:39","slug":"thanks-to-kent-parishes-for-helping-the-needy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/thanks-to-kent-parishes-for-helping-the-needy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Kent parishes for helping the needy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Volunteers Week April 18-24 celebrates the spirit of service to others in communities across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme of &#8220;Celebrating People in Action&#8221; certainly describes the caring St. Vincent de Paul volunteers at Holy Spirit and St. John the Baptist parishes who helped 2,549 Kent area needy to prevent eviction, hunger, utility shut-off and more through home visits and other contacts in 2009. During tough economic times it&#8217;s more important than ever for each of us to make a difference.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Richard Bray<\/p>\n<p>Director of Donor &amp; Community Relations<\/p>\n<p>Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle\/King Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Volunteers Week April 18-24 celebrates the spirit of service to others in communities across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}