{"id":10218,"date":"2015-03-02T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:43:42","slug":"north-carolina-carrier-assists-homeless-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/03\/02\/north-carolina-carrier-assists-homeless-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina carrier assists homeless veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Delivering hope<\/h1>\n<h2>North Carolina carrier assists homeless veterans<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-03-02T17:01:00.000Z\">From USPS &#8211;\u00a03\/2\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/03mar\/images\/news03s3.jpg\" alt=\"Vet driver\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Kernersville, NC, Letter Carrier Linwood<br \/>\nThompson on his route.<\/h6>\n<p>When Kernersville, NC, Letter Carrier Linwood Thompson isn\u2019t delivering mail, he\u2019s delivering hope to homeless veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Army vet and his brother founded VA Sidelines, a nonprofit organization that helps homeless veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a carrier, I\u2019m out every day and see people in need. I felt compelled to respond,\u201d said Thompson, who does the nonprofit work in his personal time.<\/p>\n<p>VA Sidelines\u2019 professional counselors and social workers provide clients with guidance and support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur staff performs assessments at the initial visit, and then determines the appropriate course of treatment,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is developing a housing facility too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding confidence and hope helps put the veterans on the road to success,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivering hope North Carolina carrier assists homeless veterans From USPS &#8211;\u00a03\/2\/15 Kernersville, NC, Letter Carrier Linwood Thompson on his route. When Kernersville, NC, Letter Carrier Linwood Thompson isn\u2019t delivering mail, he\u2019s delivering hope to homeless veterans. Last year, the Army vet and his brother founded VA Sidelines, a nonprofit organization that helps homeless veterans. \u201cAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}