{"id":14887,"date":"2025-12-21T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?p=14887"},"modified":"2025-12-21T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:51:31","slug":"bodhi-holiday-season-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/bodhi-holiday-season-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodhi Holiday Season Food Drive 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We would like to give a special thanks for<\/strong> all those members and friends who participated in our Bodhi Holiday Season Food Drive, on December 21, 2025, which took place right after our Meditation &amp; Talk Sunday Meeting, benefiting Amazing Grace Food Pantry in beautiful Middletown, CT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a good amount of non-perishable food donated. Also, a deep thanks to the BFF volunteers, Jonathan and Celeste, who helped organize the food drive and who took the donations to Amazing Grace. This was truly a spark of living <em>bodhicitta<\/em> and the multiple of hands of <em>Avalokiteshvara <\/em>(the Bodhisattva of Great Coompassion) in action working through each of every one of us to help those in need. Namu Amida Butsu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To learn more about <\/strong>all the good work Amazing Grace does for the Middletown community,, visit their web site here: <a href=\"https:\/\/svdmiddletown.org\/food-pantry\/\"><strong>https:\/\/svdmiddletown.org\/food-pantry\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to give a special thanks for all those members and friends who participated in our Bodhi Holiday Season Food Drive, on December 21, 2025, which took place right after our Meditation &amp; Talk Sunday Meeting, benefiting Amazing Grace Food Pantry in beautiful Middletown, CT. We had a good amount of non-perishable food&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[310,266,318,237,265,311,320,313,312,317,316,315,314,238,252,241],"class_list":["post-14887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sangha","tag-amazing-grace","tag-american-buddhism","tag-bodhictta-in-action","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhism-in-connecticut","tag-buddhism-in-middletown-usa","tag-buddhists","tag-food-pantries","tag-food-pantries-in-connecticut","tag-helping-the-needy","tag-helping-the-poor","tag-holiday-season-donations","tag-holiday-season-giving","tag-meditation","tag-middletown-connecticut","tag-mindfulness","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14890,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887\/revisions\/14890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}