{"id":30463,"date":"2023-11-26T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/graces-kitchen-serves-an-estimated-500-meals-on-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T02:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T02:00:23","slug":"graces-kitchen-serves-an-estimated-500-meals-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/graces-kitchen-serves-an-estimated-500-meals-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace\u2019s Kitchen serves an estimated 500 meals on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3434c355-3c3e-560f-ac09-97a088689a2f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Zach Smith, right, serves up food to Carter Snyder during Grace's Kitchen Thanksgiving meal drive.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Zach Smith, right, serves up food to Carter Snyder during Grace's Kitchen Thanksgiving meal drive.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Grace\u2019s Kitchen, located in St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, spent the past month roasting 34 turkeys and over 200 pounds of meat in preparation for the 500 meals they were expecting to give out on Thanksgiving Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is kind of my love language,\u201d said Chris Snyder, who helps coordinate the kitchen during this event along with his family. \u201cAnd so to be able to share that with individuals and be able to to just enjoy a meal together, I think it\u2019s everything that\u2019s perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic hit, the Thanksgiving meal drive has shifted from a dine-in event to a take-out and delivery system, which allows them to serve more of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen this year is this new pattern of somebody signing up and saying, OK, I\u2019m going to take four, so I can give some to my neighbor. There\u2019s this extra tier now,\u201d said Victoria Atkins, who helped coordinate the event. \u201cSo that just gives me hope for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Thanksgiving is basically about gratitude,\u201d said Atkins. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t just be grateful. We should act, and show our gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:4c1c6ec5-c568-43e8-8b14-1b1cf37f0895 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34 turkeys and more than 200 pounds of meat in preparation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,598],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-public-holiday"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30463","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=30463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30463"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}