{"id":489670,"date":"2026-10-08T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489670\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:06:10","slug":"giving-machine-of-bakersfield-whirring-back-to-life-ahead-of-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489670\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Machine of Bakersfield whirring back to life ahead of the holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We&#8217;ve got a long ways before the sleigh bells and holiday cheer,but it&#8217;s never too early to talk about helping children all around the world. The &#8220;Light the World&#8221; Giving Machine is whirring back to life ahead of the holidays. Michelle Lord and Alex Kinnison, who are helping lead operations here in Bakersfield, come with a big announcement of the five nonprofits selected for 2026 and other events you should watch out for to support the season of giving.17 News at Sunrise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve got a long ways before the sleigh bells and holiday cheer,but it&#8217;s never too early to talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-489670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}