{"id":903,"date":"2007-11-30T06:08:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T06:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/11\/needed-food.html"},"modified":"2007-11-30T06:08:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T06:08:55","slug":"needed-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/11\/needed-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Needed: food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/30\/us\/30food.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Today&#8217;s NYT reports<\/a> that food banks are low on food:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Food banks around the country are reporting critical shortages that have forced them to ration supplies, distribute staples usually reserved for disaster relief and in some instances close.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most demanding years I\u2019ve seen in my 30 years\u201d in the field, said Catherine D\u2019Amato, president and chief executive of the Greater Boston Food Bank, comparing the situation to the recession of the late 1970s.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To donate to America&#8217;s Second Harvest, the nation&#8217;s largest charitable hunger-relief organization, <a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.convio.net\/a2h\/site\/Donation2?idb=0&amp;df_id=1560&amp;1560.donation=form1&amp;s_src=topbutton&amp;JServSessionIdr012=2mwqsfjpi1.app7b\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo find a local food bank, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondharvest.org\/zip_code.jsp\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s NYT reports that food banks are low on food: Food banks around the country are reporting critical shortages that have forced them to ration supplies, distribute staples usually reserved for disaster relief and in some instances close. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most demanding years I\u2019ve seen in my 30 years\u201d in the field, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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