{"id":444,"date":"2009-09-15T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T21:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2013-05-24T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:23:56","slug":"day-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/day-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philau.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia University<\/a> where I teach had its second annual <em>Day of Service<\/em> today. Classes were canceled and students and faculty were expected to choose from a lengthy list of projects, a worthy cause they would work on. Some were quite organized and some were less so.<br \/>\nI joined a group who knit hats for premature infants to wear in the hospital. We were referred to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevscountrycottage.com\/preemies.html#p-hats\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a> which had many patterns for hats, booties and other items infants could use and we showed up with our yarn and needles and knit away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Some of our hats.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/knit.jpg\" alt=\"Some of our hats.\" width=\"432\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Some of our hats.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Students, faculty and staff all joined in creating a mother load of hats to be donated to an area hospital. I worked with a smaller splinter group and the picture shows some of our results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia University where I teach had its second annual Day of Service today. Classes were canceled and students and faculty were expected to choose from a lengthy list of projects, a worthy cause they would work on. Some were quite organized and some were less so. I joined a group who knit hats for premature&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/day-of-service\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,79],"tags":[59,99],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber","category-teaching","tag-philadelphia-university","tag-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}