{"id":1441,"date":"2017-10-30T06:11:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2017-10-30T06:11:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:11:03","slug":"oct-30-now-is-the-time-to-greet-a-marine-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Oct 30 \u2013 Now is the time to Greet a Marine at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Oct 30 \u2013 Now is the time to Greet a Marine at Christmas\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1441\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/103017_1010_Oct30Nowis1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">Every year a friend of mine arranges to have volunteers come greet injured Marines who are recovering at the Marine Corps Depot in San Diego, CA.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">Part of the volunteers&#8217; activity is to deliver Christmas cards to each Marine.  Where ever you live you can help by sending cards to be distributed Christmas morning.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">Here are the instructions for helping:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">Notes, letter, pictures and cards accepted.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">Salutation should be\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Dear Recruit&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">Send all the letters\/drawings in one package to the address below.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">NO personal return addresses.  Use your church&#8217;s address so the Recruit will have some idea where the card came from.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">Mark the back of each note with a classroom sticker or stamp with the school address, if they desire possible responses from recruits.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">We ask that you not use glitter.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:black; font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><strong>Please mail your letters by December 4, 2017 to the following address:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16pt\"><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Marine Moms Online Holiday Project<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color:white\">C\/O Mike Atkinson<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color:white\">3755 Avocado Blvd<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color:white\">Box 402<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color:white\">La Mesa, CA 91941<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Every year a friend of mine arranges to have volunteers come greet injured Marines who are recovering at the Marine Corps Depot in San Diego, CA. Part of the volunteers&#8217; activity is to deliver Christmas cards to each Marine. Where ever you live you can help by sending cards to be distributed Christmas morning. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oct 30 \u2013 Now is the time to Greet a Marine at Christmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}