{"id":24729,"date":"2017-11-18T19:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24729"},"modified":"2017-11-18T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T05:51:49","slug":"giving-is-better-than-receiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/giving-is-better-than-receiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving is Better than Receiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/receive.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been on the receiving end of a holiday event in which volunteers give of themselves to help you, it&#8217;s quite humbling. Two of the most &#8216;giving&#8217; and &#8216;receiving&#8217; holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas. While most think about California&#8217;s homeless and poorest citizens during these holidays, volunteers also spread cheer in Children&#8217;s Hospitals in Oakland and Orange, in &#8216;old folks homes,&#8217; veterans hospitals, and other places where people need nourishment of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>One special, Free Thanksgiving Day (and Christmas) Meal in Norco is offered by\u00a0Miracle on 6th Street, providing free food, fellowship and live entertainment since 2003, &#8220;because no one should ever miss a holiday meal or be alone.&#8221; See\u00a0miracleon6thstreet.org<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/thanksgiving.html\">Free Thanksgiving Meals and Volunteer Opportunities<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been on the receiving end of a holiday event in which volunteers give of themselves to help you, it&#8217;s quite humbling. Two of the most &#8216;giving&#8217; and &#8216;receiving&#8217; holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas. While most think about California&#8217;s homeless and poorest citizens during these holidays, volunteers also spread cheer in Children&#8217;s Hospitals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}