{"id":16466,"date":"2013-04-10T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=16466"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:47:05","slug":"truckers-buy-sandbaggers-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=16466","title":{"rendered":"Truckers Buy Sandbaggers Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP Apri 10, 2013) &#8211; Truck drivers who have been hauling sandbags around Fargo in preparation for spring flooding chipped in to buy lunch for hundreds of volunteers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The group raised a total of $800 to buy pizza for junior high students and others who filled bags Wednesday at a city storage facility dubbed Sandbag Central.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The donations included a $400 match by Dean Mertz, the general manager of Reile&#8217;s Transfer and Delivery.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mertz says &#8220;it felt right&#8221; to give money for lunch after watching students and other volunteers do the heavy lifting.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The city is wrapping up a 10-day campaign to fill a million sandbags to protect houses and other structures from possible Red River flooding.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s predicted to be the fourth major flood in five years for Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP Apri 10, 2013) &#8211; Truck drivers who have been hauling sandbags around Fargo in preparation for spring flooding chipped in to buy lunch for hundreds of volunteers. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The group raised a total of $800 to buy pizza for junior high students and others who filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16468,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466\/revisions\/16468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}