{"id":20493,"date":"2020-02-04T08:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=20493"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:41:01","slug":"9th-annual-empty-bowls-event-feb-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=20493","title":{"rendered":"9th annual Empty Bowls event, Feb. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Empty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11086\" src=\"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Empty-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On Thursday, February 27<sup>th,<\/sup>\u00a02020 Kennett Area Community Service (KACS) will be hosting its 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Empty Bowls Event at The Red Clay Room in Kennett Square.<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cEmpty Bowls\u201d is an international grassroots effort to raise money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. The mission is to create positive and lasting change through the arts, education, and community.<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">KACS Empty Bowls potters are students from the surrounding school districts, senior citizens and local artists. Each bowl is handcrafted with talent and<i>\u00a0heart<\/i>. A simple meal of soup and salad will be served. And guests of the event go home with an empty bowl to be reminded of all those who face hunger. The theme is Empty Bowls, Full Hearts.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Many interesting silent and live auction items will be available at both lunch and dinner. This year\u2019s silent auction items include fine art photography, works by local artisans, sports tickets and baskets of cheer. A few of the live auction items include beach vacations, a day of sailing on the Chesapeake and an afternoon country drive in a\u00a0vintage sports car.<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">All proceeds to benefit the Kennett Area Community Service programs that help end poverty in southern Chester County through food, shelter and a path forward. You can purchase tickets online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kacslonine.net\">www.kacslonine.net<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, February 27th,\u00a02020 Kennett Area Community Service (KACS) will be hosting its 9th\u00a0Annual Empty Bowls Event at The Red Clay Room in Kennett Square.\u00a0 \u201cEmpty Bowls\u201d is an international grassroots effort to raise money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. The mission is to create positive and lasting change through the arts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8629,8630],"class_list":["post-20493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-empty-bowls","tag-kennett-area-community-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20494,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493\/revisions\/20494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}