{"id":218229,"date":"2026-03-24T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:44:13","slug":"lubbock-program-serves-children-under-3-with-developmental-challenges-during-critical-years-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218229\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock program serves children under 3 with developmental challenges during critical years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birthday Blessings is looking for volunteers to help celebrate children in foster care across the Ozarks.<\/p>\n<p>The Springfield nonprofit provides birthday gifts, parties, and special items to children in foster care, ensuring they feel celebrated. The organization works with agencies like CASA to tailor gifts to each child\u2019s wish list.<\/p>\n<p>The executive director of Birthday Blessings discusses volunteer opportunities and planned public events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birthday Blessings is looking for volunteers to help celebrate children in foster care across the Ozarks. The Springfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-218229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}