{"id":38323,"date":"2023-12-01T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=38323"},"modified":"2023-12-18T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:54:21","slug":"christmas-food-banks-struggling-to-keep-up-despite-generous-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/12\/01\/christmas-food-banks-struggling-to-keep-up-despite-generous-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas food banks struggling to keep up despite generous donations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many families in Bristol are going to struggle to get through Christmas this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demand for food bank items has risen by 22% in the last year, and charity North Bristol and South Glos food bank are struggling to keep up with the increased demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shauna Booker Logistics Manager at the charity says &#8220;Roughly we are giving out double what we get donated each month&#8230;So we are definitely having to stock that up with shopping&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/thatisit.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many families in Bristol are going to struggle to get through Christmas this year. Demand for food bank items has risen by 22% in the last year, and charity North Bristol and South Glos food bank are struggling to keep up with the increased demand. Shauna Booker Logistics Manager at the charity says &#8220;Roughly we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":38341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38323"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38468,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions\/38468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}