{"id":414,"date":"2008-05-03T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/poverty-feast\/"},"modified":"2008-05-03T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T00:24:55","slug":"poverty-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/414\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight our student group at church put on &#8220;Poverty Feast&#8221; and evening of dinner and time to raise awareness of world hunger.  It was such a well done event!  The night was designed to be reflective of the world.  As such, the main course was rice and beans, but 5 lucky people were chosen to eat at the fancy table and have a 5 course meal.  I was one of these lucky ones!  <\/p>\n<p>I was most impressed with the teens.  They are participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.30hourfamine.org\/portal\/pages\/participant\/index.html\">30 hour famine<\/a> and have each set a goal of raising $500 and each took turns sharing why they chose to participate and what the fast meant to them.  They were so inspiring! Over 85% of the world\u2019s population live below the poverty line and here in America we easily forget this and whine when we don&#8217;t have the latest ipod or not enough clothes.  I was so impressed with these teens and their own self-awareness and vision.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/poverty0000.jpg' title='poverty0000.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/poverty0000.jpg' alt='poverty0000.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/poverty20000.jpg' title='poverty20000.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/poverty20000.jpg' alt='poverty20000.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight our student group at church put on &#8220;Poverty Feast&#8221; and evening of dinner and time to raise awareness of world hunger. It was such a well done event! The night was designed to be reflective of the world. As such, the main course was rice and beans, but 5 lucky people were chosen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}