{"id":64304,"date":"2025-12-18T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64304\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:03:38","slug":"catholic-social-services-partners-help-to-distribute-toys-for-5000-kids-in-scranton-diocese-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64304\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Social Services, partners help to distribute toys for 5,000 kids in Scranton \u2013 Diocese of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2013 Through the continued partnership of Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton and the Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center, roughly 5,000 children in the greater Scranton area will wake up with presents under the tree on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Dec. 16 and Wednesday, Dec. 17, the organizations hosted their annual \u2018Gifts for Kids\u2019 distribution at The University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-registered families were invited to shop for toys for their children at the event \u2013 which takes hundreds of volunteers to put together each year. The gifts are all donated by parishes, schools, individiuals and businesses throughout the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2013 Through the continued partnership of Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton and the Friends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-64304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}