{"id":3972,"date":"2014-11-11T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2014-11-12T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:29:43","slug":"criminal-justice-club-preparing-care-packages-for-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2014\/criminal-justice-club-preparing-care-packages-for-service-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Justice Club preparing care packages for service members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/CarePackageFB.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3993\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/CarePackageFB.jpg\" alt=\"CarePackageFB\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/CarePackageFB.jpg 851w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/11\/CarePackageFB-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a>Southern Arkansas University\u2019s Criminal Justice Club hopes to brighten the holidays for U.S. military personnel serving overseas this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese men and women are spending the holidays away from their loved ones and in a foreign country to protect our freedom,\u201d said Louis Roy, assistant professor of criminal justice at SAU.\u00a0\u201cA package from someone who is thinking about them can make a big impact on their holidays.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The group has developed a list of items that will be accepted to put in the care packages.\u00a0Those items include non-perishable snacks (no pork products), magazines, travel size personal hygiene products, candy, hometown newspapers, and other similar items.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Criminal Justice Club are also working with area schools to have students write a short letter thanking the service members. Any member of the public who would like to send a thank you note is invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to drop off items at SAU\u2019s Peace Hall is Monday, Dec. 1. Questions about the effort may be directed to Roy at (870) 235-4226.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Arkansas University\u2019s Criminal Justice Club hopes to brighten the holidays for U.S. military personnel serving overseas this holiday season. \u201cThese men and women are spending the holidays away from their loved ones and in a foreign country to protect our freedom,\u201d said Louis Roy, assistant professor of criminal justice at SAU.\u00a0\u201cA package from someone&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2014\/criminal-justice-club-preparing-care-packages-for-service-members\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"featured_media":3973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[297,7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bss","8":"category-homepage","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}