{"id":9344,"date":"2015-11-22T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:03:32","slug":"operation-christmas-child-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9344","title":{"rendered":"Operation Christmas Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9346\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9346\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Christmas Child\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9346\" data-wp-pid=\"9346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151122_115202.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Christmas Child<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/what-we-do\/operation-christmas-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Christmas Child<\/a>. I mean, a huge fan. She collects things over the course of most of the year. In the past, when she starting participating, she did a box with Dorothy and a box with her friend and our next-door neighbor, Amy. When we moved and didn&#8217;t see Amy much, they continued to do two boxes, though. This year, Cathy bought a set of five boxes, because it was convenient to buy them that way. Rather than using two and saving the others for the future, though, she decided to fill all six. Wait, wasn&#8217;t it just a five-pack? Yes, but she did six. Just because.<\/p>\n<p>We filled them this afternoon, having to &#x201c;vacuum pack&#x201d; the stuffed animal in one in order to get everything into that box, but we made it. This is Cathy, with her six boxes, heading off to deliver them to the local pick-up location. Time to start collecting things for next years boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy&#8217;s a fan of Operation Christmas Child. I mean, a huge fan. She collects things over the course of most of the year. In the past, when she starting participating, she did a box with Dorothy and a box with her friend and our next-door neighbor, Amy. When we moved and didn&#8217;t see Amy much, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9344\">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":[6,5],"tags":[287,285,2165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344"}],"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=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24813,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions\/24813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}