{"id":99158,"date":"2025-12-18T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99158\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:10:07","slug":"hood-santa-giving-year-round-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99158\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hood Santa&#8217; giving year round in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, Tito Rodriguez distributes free groceries and clothing to hundreds of people in Long Beach, through his Local Hearts Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>He does this and other good work all year long. But what he\u2019s become viral for is being known as the \u201cHood Santa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During the holiday season, \u201cHood Santa\u201d pops out at different locations in Long Beach, giving young families toys, and even cash to strangers in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his philanthropic work, \u201cHood Santa\u201d has over 100,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every week, Tito Rodriguez distributes free groceries and clothing to hundreds of people in Long Beach, through his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[31532,7,2646,31533,131,133,132,31534,54074,5996],"class_list":["post-99158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-app-human-interest","tag-california","tag-holidays","tag-human-interest","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-socal-editors-picks","tag-timothy-parker","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99158","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=99158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}