{"id":930,"date":"2015-11-23T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2015-11-23T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:49:19","slug":"blankets-and-coats-for-refugees-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Blankets and coats for refugees in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-931\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/101-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"101\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/101-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/101-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/101-624x851.jpg 624w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/101.jpg 2003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northern Virginia officials are uniting again this year in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/officials-volunteers-unite-to-collect-blankets-for-syrian-refugees-in-turkey\/2015\/11\/20\/82ec63c0-8ed3-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">an effort to help the growing numbers of those who have fled war-torn Syria and taken refuge in Turkey<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the past two years, local officials and volunteers have organized drives that collected more than 43,000 blankets for delivery to refugees in Turkey. This year, as the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has swelled to more than 2 million, the drive is being expanded to include new and \u201cgently used\u201d winter coats, as well as blankets and cash donations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/officials-volunteers-unite-to-collect-blankets-for-syrian-refugees-in-turkey\/2015\/11\/20\/82ec63c0-8ed3-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, November 22, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Virginia officials are uniting again this year in an effort to help the growing numbers of those who have fled war-torn Syria and taken refuge in Turkey. For the past two years, local officials and volunteers have organized drives that collected more than 43,000 blankets for delivery to refugees in Turkey. This year, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blankets and coats for refugees in Turkey&#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":[131,140,23,143,124,122,141,3,127,86,74,142,72],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-alexandria","tag-arlington","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-charity","tag-fairfax-county","tag-falls-church","tag-fundraiser","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofits","tag-prince-william-county","tag-purcellville","tag-refugees","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}