{"id":72063,"date":"1999-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/want-to-end-hunger-sign-a-petition-on-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"1999-11-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-15T00:00:00","slug":"want-to-end-hunger-sign-a-petition-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/1999\/11\/want-to-end-hunger-sign-a-petition-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to end hunger? Sign a petition on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 15, 1999 — Generally the turkey isn\u2019t the only thing that gets stuffed on Thanksgiving. It\u2019s a holiday during which most of us overeat. \tYet in this land of plenty, there are Americans going hungry. You can do something about it, but first here are some statistics that are hard to digest: \t\u2022 20 million people in this country are hungry. \t\u2022 10 million children are malnourished. \t\u2022 4 million children under 12 are going hungry. \t\u2022 One in 10 American households are experiencing hunger. \tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America is seeking a million signatures on a petition designed to show government officials just how many Americans want their help to end this national disgrace. To date, 387,618 signatures have been collected. To speed the process, 溏心vlog免费B站 has created a web page so people can sign the petition electronically and\/or print off other petitions for their friends. The address is www.uri.edu\/volunteer\/endhunger\/. \tThe petition calls for Congress and the president to commit to ending hunger in this country. \tThe petition was conceived by Alan Shawn Feinstein, a noted Rhode Island philanthropist and humanitarian dedicated to the battle to end hunger. He has repeatedly stated: \u201cTo have 35-million people in the greatest, richest country go hungry or worry about hunger is a shame. It is our shame.\u201d \tThis holiday it isn\u2019t only your blessings that count; it\u2019s your signature, too. Again the web address is www.uri.edu\/volunteer\/endhunger\/ \tFor more information, call the 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America at 401-874-2160. -xxx- For More Information, Jan Sawyer, 401-874-2116\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 15, 1999 — Generally the turkey isn\u2019t the only thing that gets stuffed on Thanksgiving. It\u2019s a holiday during which most of us overeat. Yet in this land of plenty, there are Americans going hungry. You can do something about it, but first here are some statistics that are hard to […]<\/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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}