{"id":13006,"date":"2010-10-01T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T03:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2015-04-08T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:37:21","slug":"one-last-thank-you-as-we-end-this-years-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/one-last-thank-you-as-we-end-this-years-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Thank You as We End This Year’s Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our canned food drive and auction<\/a> officially ended today when we dropped off the food at our local food pantry.\u00a0 When we shared the results on our blog<\/a> we said that we had collected 1066 food items for the hungry.\u00a0 With the items brought by our five top bidders, our family matching the highest bid, and donations dropped off by others we actually collected almost 1100 food items!\u00a0 AMAZING!\u00a0 The people at the food pantry talked about the growing need in the community and the increasing food shortage they faced.\u00a0 They told Jason a bit about the families facing hard economic times that depend on this food pantry to feed their children.\u00a0 Everyone at the food pantry was very excited and grateful to receive this donation.\u00a0 They weighed the items in at EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE POUNDS OF FOOD!\u00a0 873 POUNDS<\/strong><\/span>!\u00a0 Words cannot even express how uplifting that number is!<\/p>\n

Before we dropped off the food we took a picture to show what that much food looks like.\u00a0 It warmed our hearts seeing the food spread over our entire driveway.\u00a0 As a mother it was really special to be able to show my kids what generosity and goodness can do.\u00a0 With this idea starting from our son’s innocent and giving heart last year<\/a>, all of our kids wanted to be very hands on for this project.\u00a0 They worked so hard to help in every way they could.\u00a0 They carried and counted and collected and prayed.\u00a0 I hope that this will be something that will be with them for the rest of their lives, and I thank all of you who played a role in that.<\/p>\n

We want to thank every single person who donated food.\u00a0 In 2009 there were almost 50 million Americans living in households where they did not know where their next meal would come from.\u00a0 According to a study done by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1 in every 4 children live in a food-insecure household.\u00a0 It is so easy to take for granted something as simple as deciding what to eat for dinner tonight but that same night so many people in America and all around the world will go hungry.\u00a0 It means so much to know that through this food drive we were able to feed families who would have otherwise gone hungry.\u00a0 We are truly humbled and incredibly honored to have played a part in collecting this food and we are incredibly grateful to all of you who contributed to this cause, whether it be with one food item or with two hundred and one.<\/p>\n

Some highlights from the fall mini sessions that the five top bidders won are also on the blog now<\/a> so check those out!\u00a0 They are all beautiful families inside and out.<\/p>\n

Again and again and again, thank you to everyone who gave to the hungry and shared your gifts with those who go without.\u00a0 We cannot wait to see what we can collect next year!\u00a0 Everyone start stocking up on your cans now!<\/p>\n

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Our canned food drive and auction officially ended today when we dropped off the food at our local food pantry.\u00a0 When we shared the results on our blog we said that we had collected 1066 food items for the hungry.\u00a0 With the items brought by our five top bidders, our family matching the highest bid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,42],"tags":[51,821],"class_list":["post-13006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-our-family","tag-contest","tag-food-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13006"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44243,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions\/44243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}