{"id":9189,"date":"2018-10-12T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:02:15","slug":"blessing-box-helps-those-in-need-in-los-fresnos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9189","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Box Helps Those in Need in Los Fresnos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9180\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9180\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_1978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_1978.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_1978-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_1978-405x259.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dale House, pastor of Los Fresnos Church of Christ, talks about the Blessing Box. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone needing or donating food staples can stop by a box set up for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Los Fresnos Church of Christ has installed a red box at 111 W. Fifth St. where residents, or anyone for that matter, can pick up or drop canned and other goods as needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake what you need, leave what you can,\u201d reads a sign on the container church members call the Blessing Box.<\/p>\n<p>The box was by the curbside but it was moved a little farther back because of the hot weather.<\/p>\n<p>Dale House, the church pastor, said they installed the box back in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a success,\u201d he said. \u201cSometime it\u2019s half full and sometimes it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone is welcome to stop by to pick up a can of peas, beans or corn or other food or to drop by any food staple, providing it\u2019s not something perishable.<\/p>\n<p>The box is available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Anyone needing or donating food staples can stop by a box set up for that purpose. Los Fresnos Church of Christ has installed a red box at 111 W. Fifth St. where residents, or anyone for that matter, can pick up or drop canned and other goods as needed. \u201cTake what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9190,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions\/9190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}