{"id":59687,"date":"2014-01-07T19:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/500-attend-benefit-for-vickie-wallace\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T02:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:13:32","slug":"500-attend-benefit-for-vickie-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/500-attend-benefit-for-vickie-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"500 attend benefit for Vickie Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:255681c6-d5a7-47b4-97ba-5bd32f647380 --><\/p>\n<p>Desserts, art, knit goods and people lined the walls at the benefit for Vicki Wallace, who is battling metastatic colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p>About 500 people attended the event at the Lewis-Arriola Community Center on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The turnout didn\u2019t surprise any of Wallace\u2019s friends, especially Heather Pierce, who described her as a \u201chardworking, dynamic, cowgirl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wallace family has ranched in the area for six generations.<\/p>\n<p>This benefit is the latest in a series for community members in need.<\/p>\n<p>Lenetta Shull, one of the organizers, noted the hardworking and fighting spirit of the community when she thanked the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe give from our heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Pies, cookies and desserts of all kinds auctioned at well over $100 each.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken bingo and silent-auction items ranging from kitchen faucets to handmade pots also filled the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more of a testimony, not about me, but about our community,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>held to help members of community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2370,849,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cancer","tag-community-connections","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59687","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=59687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59687"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}