{"id":259,"date":"2018-02-26T05:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/?p=259"},"modified":"2018-03-02T00:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:25:51","slug":"a-new-family-and-a-fundraiser-to-help-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"A second family sponsorship &#8230; and a fundraiser to help them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gherkins are thrilled to announce we are <strong>expecting a second family<\/strong> to arrive in Victoria in a few weeks! They are also originally from Syria, and we just received confirmation that their flights are booked. Thanks to\u00a0your generosity, we have\u00a0a good start on our supplies and funds &#8230; but we do need to raise more to support them in their first year in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2018-03-02T00:24:33+00:00\">One way you can help is by coming to our <strong>Traditional Syrian Dinner fundraiser on March 9<\/strong>. If you haven&#8217;t had the chance to taste Syrian food before, we promise you are in for a treat!<\/del><br \/>\nOur Syrian Dinner is <strong>SOLD OUT!<\/strong>. Thank-you all for your support!<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers from Victoria&#8217;s Syrian community are\u00a0cooking for the event, and there will be door prizes and lots of fun. <del datetime=\"2018-03-02T00:24:33+00:00\">Tickets are $22 and available\u00a0through\u00a0Eventbrite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/traditional-syrian-dinner-tickets-42430593046?utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;aff=esfb&amp;utm-source=fb&amp;utm-term=listing\">here<\/a>.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gherkins are thrilled to announce we are expecting a second family to arrive in Victoria in a few weeks! They are also originally from Syria, and we just received confirmation that their flights are booked. Thanks to&nbsp;your generosity, we have&nbsp;a good start on our supplies and funds &hellip; but we do need to raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghrscg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}