{"id":13280,"date":"2017-11-15T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:03:54","slug":"operation-christmas-child-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13280","title":{"rendered":"Operation Christmas Child, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13282\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13282\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Christmas Child, Part 1\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13282\" data-wp-pid=\"13282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_20171115_148236.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Christmas Child, Part 1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Towards the end of summer Cathy does much of her Operation Christmas Child shopping. The back-to-school sales are a good time for it. I asked her then how many boxes she planned to do this year. She said six but quickly corrected herself, saying, &#x201c;well, probably seven.&#x201d; I think she honestly believed that&#8217;s how many she was going to make. That was a fiction, however. Her six or seven has quickly turned into twelve. <em>Every year<\/em> she ends up making more than she planned but this year she really went a bit overboard. She <em>does<\/em> like Operation Christmas Child. This picture is just a small section of the staging for packing boxes, which has taken over Dorothy&#8217;s room for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of summer Cathy does much of her Operation Christmas Child shopping. The back-to-school sales are a good time for it. I asked her then how many boxes she planned to do this year. She said six but quickly corrected herself, saying, &#x201c;well, probably seven.&#x201d; I think she honestly believed that&#8217;s how many &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[287,285,2165,286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13284,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}