{"id":859147,"date":"2026-09-24T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859147\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:28:10","slug":"say-more-i-feel-accosted-by-the-grocery-stores-cancer-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859147\/","title":{"rendered":"Say More: I feel \u2018accosted\u2019 by the grocery store\u2019s cancer fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4KX5OVUTSNEELMLG347I6EEFIA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Say More: This may be silly, but as September approaches, I am dreading going to the grocery store. I go often, as I have two young kids and inevitably we run out of things here and there.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XUU7L7OYABDXNASM2WGN7TT4KE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">My local chain grocery store does a pediatric cancer fundraiser every September, and staff will approach customers as they are walking in and\/or checking out with a coupon book in exchange for a $5 donation. If you say \u201cno\u201d or \u201calready did,\u201d they ask you to donate more on behalf of the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Say More: This may be silly, but as September approaches, I am dreading going to the grocery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-859147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}