{"id":15407,"date":"2020-04-28T17:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000010138"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:55:18","slug":"addison-coronavirus-live-chat-tank-gonzales-world-central-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/addison-coronavirus-live-chat-tank-gonzales-world-central-kitchen","title":{"rendered":"LIVE CHAT: Meet Tank Gonzales, the man who brought World Central Kitchen to Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live Chat: Feeding seniors for free with World Central Kitchen Coordinator Tank Gonzales\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkmmzjWvNQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tank Gonzales goes by many titles\u2014tattoo connoisseur, lawyer, world traveler\u2014but, these days, they don&#8217;t seem to matter as much to him as the title of coordinator for the World Central Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing upon <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/addison-coronavirus-world-central-kitchen-seniors-tank-gonzalez\">a story the Long Beach Post broke a few weeks ago<\/a>, I had the chance to sit down with Gonzales via the Post&#8217;s Live Chat series and talk about how Long Beach became one of the few cities testing a pilot feeding program for Michelin-starred Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s&#8217; famed nonprofit. 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