{"id":256445,"date":"2026-06-05T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256445\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:30:46","slug":"news-12-bronx-baseball-legend-david-ortiz-delivers-meals-in-the-bronx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256445\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Baseball Legend David Ortiz Delivers Meals In The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Baseball legend David Ortiz, in partnership with Somos Care Network, delivered meals to Medicaid patients in the Bronx. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People dealing with chronic illnesses get meals at their doorstep through the program. The former Red Sox designated hitter is hoping to help spread awareness to those eligible. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Somos says thousands of people who are eligible miss out on the service because of a lack of awareness. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cJust having the opportunity to be able to give back to the community, something so special &#8230; because you eat good, when you eat good food, you&#8217;re gonna stay longer,&#8221; Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Before the meals were delivered on Thursday, a forum was held with national health leaders at Somos headquarters. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The organization has also partnered with Food Is Medicine Marketplace to deliver pre-made meals across the Bronx. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball legend David Ortiz, in partnership with Somos Care Network, delivered meals to Medicaid patients in the Bronx.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-256445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}