{"id":21,"date":"2008-12-15T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T00:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachseattle.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/15\/northwest-harvest-food-bank-volunteer"},"modified":"2019-07-25T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:29:58","slug":"northwest-harvest-food-bank-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/northwest-harvest-food-bank-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Harvest &#8211; food bank &#8211; volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!1226305B396C663F!329\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">20+ of us volunteered in the Northwest Harvest Warehouse to pack food for the food bank. Within 3 hours, we packed over 3000 24-pound food boxes. It\u2019s quite some experience. When I was packing\u00a0a food box, I was very present to the fact\u00a0that I was preparing\u00a0a family&#8217;s meal. I learned that Northwest Harvest gave food to people standing in line. There is no qualification question asked. And there are tremendous volunteered hours in the process. Last year, the total volunteer hours were equivalent of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">22 full-time employees.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Before, when I donated can food to the food bank, I didn\u2019t give much thought. Now, I know more than 50% of food is served to children and the elderly and I will give careful consideration to\u00a0my donation. I will also encourage teens to volunteer\u00a0in the food bank. There are a lot of lessons to learn. Currently, food banks can&#8217;t meet the growing\u00a0demand. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20+ of us volunteered in the Northwest Harvest Warehouse to pack food for the food bank. Within 3 hours, we packed over 3000 24-pound food boxes. It\u2019s quite some experience. When I was packing\u00a0a food box, I was very present to the fact\u00a0that I was preparing\u00a0a family&#8217;s meal. I learned that Northwest Harvest gave food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[292,297,21],"tags":[312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}