{"id":61751,"date":"2015-05-13T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61751"},"modified":"2015-05-12T17:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T21:36:45","slug":"veterans-organization-donates-toys-for-young-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61751","title":{"rendered":"Veteran\u2019s Organization Donates Toys for Young Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61752\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"Veterans Toy Donation\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) Members of Madison County Locale 554, Forty &amp; Eight, recently donated a large number of new stuffed toys to be given to Oneida Healthcare\u2019s pediatric patients. Pictured from left are Chuck Button, Commisaire Intendant; Mike Healy, Oneida Healthcare Director of Community Relations; Jan DeRocker, RN, Nurse Manager of the Emergency Department, ICU and Quick Care after-hours service; Cindy Sheckler, Chef De Train; and Paul Douglass, Chef De Gare.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1920, the Forty &amp; Eight is an independent veteran\u2019s honor organization committed to charitable and patriotic aims, including programs\u00a0that promote\u00a0child welfare and nurse&#8217;s training.\u00a0The name reflects its First World War origins when Americans were transported to the\u00a0battle front on French trains\u00a0within\u00a0boxcars stenciled with a \u201c40\/8,\u201d denoting its capacity to hold either forty men or eight horses.\u00a0Membership is by invitation of honorably discharged veterans and honorably serving members of the United States Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) Members of Madison County Locale 554, Forty &amp; Eight, recently donated a large number of new stuffed toys to be given to Oneida Healthcare\u2019s pediatric patients. Pictured from left are Chuck Button, Commisaire Intendant; Mike Healy, Oneida Healthcare Director of Community Relations; Jan DeRocker, RN, Nurse Manager of the Emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61752,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Veterans-Toy-Donation.jpg?fit=450%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-g3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}