{"id":10758,"date":"2012-11-17T22:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T02:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2012-12-02T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T22:25:00","slug":"voluntarism-in-nh-generosity-in-the-free-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2012\/11\/17\/voluntarism-in-nh-generosity-in-the-free-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntarism in NH – Generosity in the Free State"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the season for giving, after all.<\/em><\/p>\n

Putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to charity, 40+ Porcupines (the porcupine is the mascot of the Free State Project)<\/a> volunteers came together to bag the groceries that will go to 260 families and feed 600 needy people through a program founded in 2011 called Shire Sharing<\/a>. “Now only in its second year, and with 400% growth since last year, this is how Free Staters roll…” as seen commented on the FSP’s FaceBook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

The program Shire Sharing<\/a> was founded by members of the FSP who wanted to show how the community can help outside of government.<\/p>\n

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Bags of Goodies Waiting to be Distributed by Shire Sharing<\/p><\/div>\n

In the recent past, Free State Project members and their NH friends have also been known to participate in the “adopt-a-highway” program for the purpose of keeping NH’s scenic highways clean, and have raised thousands for various sick or injured individuals.<\/p>\n

To learn more about how you can help, please visit their website at Shire Sharing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Added info: Hear an NPR report on the project.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the season for giving, after all. Putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to charity, 40+ Porcupines (the porcupine is the mascot of the Free State Project) volunteers came together to bag the groceries that will go to 260 families and feed 600 needy people through a program founded in 2011 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}