{"id":10103,"date":"2019-04-18T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2019-04-18T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:56:13","slug":"youth-group-raising-awareness-of-food-insecurity-in-n-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10103","title":{"rendered":"Youth group raising awareness of food insecurity in N.S"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>It\n won\u2019t quite be the Hunger Games, but the youth group at St. John\u2019s \nUnited Church in Fall River will be fasting\u2014all for a good cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group will be participating in a 24-hour famine on May 3-4, gathering at the church from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m<strong>. <\/strong>Saturday and fasting together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\n year the youth have chosen to raise funds for Feed Nova Scotia in an \neffort to raise awareness about food insecurity in Nova Scotia \ncommunities. They are raising funds through sponsors prior to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\n well, on Saturday May 4, noon &#8211; 2:30 they will also host a Fill A \nPick-Up Truck (or two) food drive in the St. John\u2019s United Church \nparking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the weekend the youth will engage in discussion and exercises to raise awareness about food insecurity and poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: It won\u2019t quite be the Hunger Games, but the youth group at St. John\u2019s United Church in Fall River will be fasting\u2014all for a good cause. The group will be participating in a 24-hour famine on May 3-4, gathering at the church from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Saturday and fasting together. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[458,2,459,460,461],"class_list":["post-10103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-30-hour-famine","tag-fall-river","tag-food-insecurity","tag-ns","tag-youth-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}