{"id":75987,"date":"2017-11-18T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/first-grader-raises-money-for-the-homeless\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T00:12:10","slug":"first-grader-raises-money-for-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/first-grader-raises-money-for-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"First-grader raises money for the homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e5ab52ec-fedb-49fc-8def-29a359f15280&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2136\" alt=\"Abram Keel, 6, with Bridge volunteers Jackie Snow, Dani Chaffin and Terry Lynn Tito.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Abram Keel, 6, with Bridge volunteers Jackie Snow, Dani Chaffin and Terry Lynn Tito.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Bridge Emergency Shelter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Abram Keel, 6, put a cardboard box labeled \u201cHelp the Homeless\u201d in his front yard during the shelter\u2019s annual yard sale fundraiser. He asked passersby to donate 5 cents. By the end of the day, he had raised about $53, which his grandmother Deb Keel, a regular volunteer at the shelter, delivered for him.<\/p>\n<p>Abram said many people were happy to drop money in the box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt said \u20185 cents,\u2019 but a lot of people gave a dollar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abram said he wanted the money to help homeless people find homes.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Knutson, executive director of the Bridge, thanked him for his contribution, saying it was \u201csweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bridge accepts donations of money and goods such as blankets, nonperishable food and clothing year-round. To find out more, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeshelter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thebridgeshelter.org<\/a> or call 970-565-9808.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keel, 6, with Bridge volunteers Jackie Snow, Dani Chaffin and Terry Lynn Tito.Bridge Emergency Shelter Abram Keel, 6, put a cardboard box labeled \u201cHelp the Homeless\u201d in his front yard during the shelter\u2019s annual yard sale fundraiser. He asked passersby to donate 5 cents. By the end of the day, he had raised about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[408,21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-charity","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75987","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=75987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75987"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}