{"id":122270,"date":"2013-12-25T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/christmas-dinner-feeds-hundreds-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T02:06:00","slug":"christmas-dinner-feeds-hundreds-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/christmas-dinner-feeds-hundreds-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas dinner feeds hundreds in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2291bfba-2605-48f7-8f5f-5c5a6ec42fed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2291bfba-2605-48f7-8f5f-5c5a6ec42fed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2291bfba-2605-48f7-8f5f-5c5a6ec42fed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2291bfba-2605-48f7-8f5f-5c5a6ec42fed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1392\" alt=\"Volunteers Brandy Carruth and her husband, Jason, whip up a batch of mash potatoes and green beans Wednesday at the 25th annual Community Christmas Dinner in Cortez.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Volunteers Brandy Carruth and her husband, Jason, whip up a batch of mash potatoes and green beans Wednesday at the 25th annual Community Christmas Dinner in Cortez.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Held Christmas Day at the Montezuma County Annex, the free dinner is made possible by scores of volunteers who donate their time to serve hot sit-down meals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Christmas spirit comes alive when you give back,\u201d said volunteer coordinator Mitchell Toms, smiling. \u201cHelping others creates wonderful possibilities. That\u2019s what Christmas is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Served on disposable plates, the meals included turkey, green beans, mash potatoes and gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, rolls and a variety of desserts.<\/p>\n<p>Holiday meals were also delivered to about 50 homebound residents. All leftovers were donated to area soup kitchens and The Bridge Emergency Shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Those in attendance were also treated to live holiday music courtesy of Country Connection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tbaker@cortezjournal.com\">tbaker@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers Brandy Carruth and her husband, Jason, whip up a batch of mash potatoes and green beans Wednesday at the 25th annual Community Christmas Dinner in Cortez.du1-i-syn Held Christmas Day at the Montezuma County Annex, the free dinner is made possible by scores of volunteers who donate their time to serve hot sit-down meals. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[755,21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-122270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-christmas","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122270"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=122270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}