{"id":384,"date":"2004-02-05T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=384"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"president-bush-operation-give-and-matt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/02\/president-bush-operation-give-and-matt\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bush, Operation Give, and Matt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you scroll down our list of links, you will find one to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationgive.org\/\">Operation Give<\/a> (the &#8220;Give Toys to Iraq&#8221; button), which was set up by Matt and a national guardsman from Utah to provide charity to Iraqi children.  This morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Bush praised the work of Operation Give.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe said:<\/p>\n<ul>Our people in uniform understand the high calling they have answered because they see the nation and the lives they are changing. A guardsman from Utah named Paul Holton has described seeing an Iraqi girl crying and decided then and there to help that child and others like her. By enlisting aid through the Internet, Chief Warrant Officer Holton had arranged the shipment of more than 1,600 aid packages from overseas. Here&#8217;s how this man defines his own mission: &#8220;It is part of our heritage that the benefits of being free, enjoyed by all Americans, were set up by God, intended for all people. Bondage is not of God, and it is not right that any man should be in bondage at any time, in any way.&#8221; Everyone one in this room can say amen to that. <\/ul>\n<p>For the full text of President Bush&#8217;s remarks, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/02\/20040205-1.html\">here<\/a>.  Well done Chief Wiggles, Matt, and those who have supported Operation Give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you scroll down our list of links, you will find one to Operation Give (the &#8220;Give Toys to Iraq&#8221; button), which was set up by Matt and a national guardsman from Utah to provide charity to Iraqi children. This morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Bush praised the work of Operation Give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}