{"id":4879,"date":"2011-11-19T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/give-a-little-cheer-this-season-to-children-today\/"},"modified":"2011-11-19T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T06:05:00","slug":"give-a-little-cheer-this-season-to-children-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/give-a-little-cheer-this-season-to-children-today","title":{"rendered":"Give a Little Cheer This Season to Children Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/m_image1321688725-92060.jpg\" style=\"width: 150px; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: black; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: black; \" align=\"right\" alt=\"\"><strong>6:00am |&nbsp;<\/strong>Children Today, a community based organization that provides services to families and children experiencing homelessness in Long Beach, is having their 14th annual Holiday Cheer fundraiser&nbsp;on December 2&nbsp; at 7:00pm.&nbsp; The funds raised directly support the programmatic needs of the organization, which include meals and educational material for children, amongst other valuable resources.<\/p>\n<p>The annual benefit is Children&#8217;s Today&#8217;s most significant fundraiser. It contributes to their Playhouse Programs, which provide free, accredited child care to children experiencing homelessness. &nbsp;This program, which provides a safe and consistent environment, helps foster learning and growth through play and experiential activities.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place at the same location it occurred last year, &nbsp;Arco Towers. Not only will food be served, but the event includes a casino space, wine tasting area, sushi bar, and silent auction as well, amongst other activities. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arco Towers is located at&nbsp;300 Oceangate Blvd. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrentoday.org\/Calendar\/HolidayCheer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Noteworthy; font-size:10pt; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); font-weight: bold; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children Today, a community based organization that provides services to families and children experiencing homelessness in Long Beach is having their 14th annual Holiday Cheer fundraiser on December 2\u00a0at 7:00pm at the Arco Towers located at 300 Oceangate Blvd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}