{"id":1740,"date":"2012-01-31T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2012-01-30T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:08:38","slug":"vets-helping-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Vets Helping Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love highlighting organizations like this one. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/lifebypets\/?p=602\">written in other places<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/p2v.org\/\">Pets2Vets<\/a>, which helps provide companion animals to veterans. The animals come from shelters, so the soldiers aren\u2019t just getting a pet, they\u2019re saving a life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetshelpingheroes.org\/\">Vets Helping Heroes<\/a> works to help provide veterans with service dogs, which comes with a much higher expense. Currently, our federal government does not provide any assistance to veterans who would benefit from a service animal. Vets Helping Heroes is lobbying to change that, but in the meantime, they are raising funds to provide as many service animals as they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love highlighting organizations like this one. I have written in other places about Pets2Vets, which helps provide companion animals to veterans. The animals come from shelters, so the soldiers aren\u2019t just getting a pet, they\u2019re saving a life. Vets Helping Heroes works to help provide veterans with service dogs, which comes with a much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,19,43,45],"tags":[1406,1405,1403,1203,1404],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-pets","category-healthcare","category-pets","category-politics","tag-cost-of-service-dogs","tag-pets2vets","tag-service-animals","tag-veterans","tag-vets-helping-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/100wordson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}