{"id":24930,"date":"2025-10-13T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=24930"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:33:05","slug":"thanksgiving-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2025\/events\/thanksgiving-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TTU food pantry is organizing a Thanksgiving food drive to collect traditional holiday items such as mac and cheese, canned vegetables, pie crust mix, pie fillings, and more. Several community partners\u2014including EMS stations, other first responder locations, and local childcare centers\u2014have already agreed to host donation boxes! We\u2019ll also be placing boxes around campus to make it easy for students to contribute!<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to collect enough donations to fill 100 Thanksgiving bags&nbsp;for distribution during the week of the holiday. Many students rely on the food pantry regularly, and several won\u2019t be able to travel home for Thanksgiving. We want to ensure they have access to a warm, comforting meal!<\/p>\n<p>Please contact Morgan Walls (Mgmingle42@tntech.edu) for more information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TTU food pantry is organizing a Thanksgiving food drive to collect traditional holiday items such as mac and cheese, canned vegetables, pie crust mix, pie fillings, and more. Several community partners\u2014including EMS stations, other first responder locations, and local childcare centers\u2014have already agreed to host donation boxes! We\u2019ll also be placing boxes around campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-24930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24945,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions\/24945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}