{"id":4018,"date":"2007-08-09T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2007-08-09T23:20:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T03:20:42","slug":"family-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/family-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Matt&#8217;s thread, Jordon F. wrote, &#8220;I should add that I think children are particularly quick at grasping and enjoying the opportunity of rendering service as a family. &#8220;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I agree with him completely.  But I&#8217;ve been stymied by how to perform meaningful service with three small kids (currently 9, 6, and 2.5).  The one really wonderful experience we had was at a food bank putting together boxes of nonperishables for Thanksgiving dinner.  But that was a one-shot deal and the regular food bank here has a minimum age of seven to volunteer.  I honestly don&#8217;t know what we can do.  Maybe I&#8217;m just not creative enough.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway:  What meaningful service projects have you done with your young children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Matt&#8217;s thread, Jordon F. wrote, &#8220;I should add that I think children are particularly quick at grasping and enjoying the opportunity of rendering service as a family. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-4018","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\/4018","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}