{"id":1543,"date":"2016-11-28T21:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T04:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonplotner.com\/v1\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2016-11-28T21:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T04:14:18","slug":"big-givers-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonplotner.com\/v1\/big-givers-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Givers 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My family and I are excited to be a part of a wonderful event this holiday season. Help a family in need by sponsoring them, shopping for their Christmas gifts, and then delivering them to their home \u2014 all in the matter of one afternoon. Watch this video and visit BIGgivers.com to register for the Colorado Springs event on Sunday, December 11 at 2 PM.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\" data-videoid=\"dd705eee-36c9-ac52-3daf-f751c22c5f62\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"bbVideoIframe\" src=\"\/\/bbemaildelivery.com\/bbext\/?p=vidEmbed&amp;id=dd705eee-36c9-ac52-3daf-f751c22c5f62\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family and I are excited to be a part of a wonderful event this holiday season. Help a family in need by sponsoring them, shopping for their Christmas gifts, and then delivering them to their home \u2014 all in the matter of one afternoon. Watch this video and visit BIGgivers.com to register for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[106,81,105,93,3,104],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-christmas","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-springs","tag-community","tag-family","tag-giving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzg9k-oT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1338,"url":"https:\/\/jonplotner.com\/v1\/christmas-letter-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":1543,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Letter 2015","author":"Jon Plotner","date":"December 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been awhile since we've sent a family Christmas letter, but this year has been filled with so many changes that we thought we should update all of you on the latest on the Plotner's in Colorado. 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