{"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 &#8211; 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&#8217;t forget The Buffalo News Neediest Fund this season.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother, Vokira Small, wouldn&#8217;t have been able to put such big smiles on Kavon&#8217;s and Kevin&#8217;s faces.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/home\/story\/905086.html\" target=\"_blank\">read full story<\/a>&#8212;&gt;]<\/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 &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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},"_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}]}}