{"id":23,"date":"2013-05-18T00:11:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonkinsmen.wordpress.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2014-05-18T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:44:36","slug":"23-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/projects-2\/23-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What we Take For Granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Kinsmen Club members are working to donate basic kits of men\u2019s hygiene items for low income individuals accessing Samaritan House Ministries. Initial response to the kits has been very positive. The value of a dry pair of socks can be beyond words.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Kinsmen Club of Brandon are always looking for service projects to help the community. After meeting with Marla Somersall of Samaritan House to discuss the needs of low income families and people in need, members knew where to direct some of their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us take the razor, socks and bottle of shampoo in our homes for granted. What happens to those who have to choose between being clean and being fed. Many people struggling to make ends meet cannot afford these basic hygiene items. It is hard to imagine someone who is hungry and at risk of homelessness making a good impression in a job interview when he cannot afford to brush his teeth or shampoo his hair. More likely he will not feel\u00a0 presentable enough to be considered for employment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/KitsFeb2014Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/KitsFeb2014Web-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Kinsmen members present kits to Marla Somersall of Samaritan House, February 2014.\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/KitsFeb2014Web-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/KitsFeb2014Web.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinsmen members present kits to Samaritan House, February 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Kinsmen Club members are working to donate basic kits of men\u2019s hygiene items for low income individuals accessing Samaritan House Ministries. Initial response to the kits has been very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonkin.ca\/kinsmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}