{"id":1058,"date":"2016-05-17T00:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:17:59","slug":"link-keeps-fighting-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"LINK keeps fighting hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/201-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/201-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/201-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/201-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/201-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LINK&#8217;s mobile food pantry in Sterling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jim Butts says he has witnessed countless changes in the 44 years he has been volunteering for LINK, a nonprofit organization that delivers emergency food to families in Sterling, Herndon and Ashburn. One thing has not changed, however: Despite the prosperity that has come to the region, there are always people who don\u2019t know where they will find their next meal.<\/p>\n<p>Butts and other longtime volunteers have helped keep the faith-based group running for decades without any paid staff members. Hundreds of other volunteers \u2014 including businesses, church youth groups, Scouts and intellectually disabled students \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/link-provides-emergency-food-to-needy-families-in-northern-virginia\/2016\/05\/13\/c96156d6-1915-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">join them every month to help combat hunger in Northern Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/link-provides-emergency-food-to-needy-families-in-northern-virginia\/2016\/05\/13\/c96156d6-1915-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, May 15, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Butts says he has witnessed countless changes in the 44 years he has been volunteering for LINK, a nonprofit organization that delivers emergency food to families in Sterling, Herndon and Ashburn. One thing has not changed, however: Despite the prosperity that has come to the region, there are always people who don\u2019t know where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LINK keeps fighting hunger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,44,124,123,139,3,68,80,72],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-ashburn","tag-church","tag-fairfax-county","tag-herndon","tag-hunger","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofit","tag-sterling","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}