{"id":4296,"date":"2009-12-26T10:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2009-12-26T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T15:19:27","slug":"buffalo-news-putting-a-smile-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2009\/12\/buffalo-news-putting-a-smile-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo News: Putting a smile on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.buffalonews.com\/smedia\/2009\/12\/25\/22\/122609top.embedded.prod_affiliate.50.JPG?resize=280%2C193\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"193\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Kavon McCutcheon, 7, enjoys a Christmas dinner<br \/>\nof chicken cordon bleu with his family at the Response<br \/>\nto Love Center in Buffalo on Friday \u2013 Harry Scull Jr. \/ Buffalo News)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Gene Warner and Jay Rey News Staff Reporters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kavon McCutcheon, 7, was eating Christmas dinner \u2014 chicken cordon bleu with all the fixings \u2014 while clutching a stuffed animal and a Pokemon toy. His brother, Kevin, 4, was at the end of the table showing off an action figure.<\/p>\n<p>The McCutcheon boys were the faces of Christmas present at an East Side neighborhood agency Friday, thanks largely to the generosity of those who once again didn\u2019t forget The Buffalo News Neediest Fund this season.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother, Vokira Small, wouldn\u2019t have been able to put such big smiles on Kavon\u2019s and Kevin\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/home\/story\/905086.html\" target=\"_blank\">read full story<\/a>\u2014>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Kavon McCutcheon, 7, enjoys a Christmas dinner of chicken cordon bleu with his family at the Response to Love Center in Buffalo on Friday \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-bf-people","tag-response-to-love-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-17i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}