{"id":94148,"date":"2014-12-20T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=94148"},"modified":"2014-12-20T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:39:54","slug":"u-s-embassy-staff-brings-christmas-cheer-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/12\/u-s-embassy-staff-brings-christmas-cheer-to-children","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy Staff Brings Christmas Cheer To Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94149\" alt=\"nazareth-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nazareth-center.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, December 18, American and Bahamian staff from the U.S. Embassy gathered at the Nazareth Center to participate in a festive holiday event bringing yuletide cheer to 42 of the home\u2019s children.\u00a0 U.S. Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires Lisa Johnson and Embassy staff participated in the program that treated the children to snacks and a special appearance by Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Santa and Mrs. Claus distributed gifts donated by the Embassy community as well as toys donated by the American Women&#8217;s Club as part of the U.S. Marine&#8217;s annual Toys for Tots program.\u00a0 &#8220;The Embassy is excited to be visiting the Nazareth Center again this year\u201d said Charg\u00e9 Johnson.\u00a0 \u201cThe staff really looks forward to sharing the spirit of Christmas with all of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In line with the U.S. Embassy\u2019s efforts to engage local communities through outreach, the event marks the eight consecutive year that the U.S. Embassy has reached out to children at Nazareth Center during the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>U.S. Embassy, Nassau<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Photo Captions:\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Top:\u00a0 U.S. Embassy staff at the Nazareth Centre.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Bottom: U.S. Embassy staff participates in a festive holiday event at the Nazareth Center.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94150\" alt=\"nazareth-centre\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nazareth-centre.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, December 18, American and Bahamian staff from the U.S. Embassy gathered at the Nazareth Center to participate in a festive holiday event bringing yuletide cheer to 42 of the home\u2019s children.  U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":94149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}