{"id":2451989,"date":"2019-12-08T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/the-ideal-holiday-gift\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:34:56","slug":"the-ideal-holiday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-ideal-holiday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The ideal holiday gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As the holiday season begins, many of us are thinking of friends and family and how we might celebrate and share our gratitude for these special relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Instead of shopping for just the right gift, I would like to suggest that making a donation of any amount to your friend or family member\u2019s favorite nonprofit organization can have so much more impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">You will learn about your friend\u2019s volunteer interests, be introduced to the work of that organization and give support to help better the community that the organization serves. It\u2019s a gift that truly keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">No driving or gift wrapping involved. Big social impact, small carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Happy holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Lynn Nichols<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-ideal-holiday-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the holiday season begins, many of us are thinking of friends and family and how we might celebrate and share our gratitude for these special relationships. Instead of shopping for just the right gift, I would like to suggest that making a donation of any amount to your friend or family member\u2019s favorite nonprofit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 03:23:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452004,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451989\/revisions\/2452004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}