{"id":19022,"date":"2022-11-09T02:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2022-11-09T02:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:38:20","slug":"kmart-kotara-launch-of-its-iconic-kmart-wishing-tree-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/kmart-kotara-launch-of-its-iconic-kmart-wishing-tree-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart Kotara launch of its iconic Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are delighted to invite you to the Kmart Kotara launch of its iconic Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal together with founding charity partner, The Salvation Army, in store tomorrow&nbsp;<strong>Thursday 10th November 2022<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year marks a historic milestone of reaching&nbsp;<strong>35 years of supporting those doing it tough in communities across Australia<\/strong>. The need for the Appeal is greater than ever-before, as many Australians face into cost-of-living pressures such as increased electricity and food prices and rising interest rates seeing the financial strain on many individuals and families rapidly increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long standing charity partner,&nbsp;<strong>The Salvation Army, is anticipating this Christmas to be one of the busiest they have ever seen<\/strong>. Research conducted by The Salvation Army last Christmas found that a staggering 83% of those surveyed and presenting to the Salvos were struggling to afford Christmas presents for their children and more than half (56%) could not afford a meal on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to invite you to the Kmart Kotara launch of its iconic Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal together with founding charity partner, The Salvation Army, in store tomorrow&nbsp;Thursday 10th November 2022.&nbsp; This year marks a historic milestone of reaching&nbsp;35 years of supporting those doing it tough in communities across Australia. The need for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/kmart-kotara-launch-of-its-iconic-kmart-wishing-tree-appeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kmart Kotara launch of its iconic Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19023,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022\/revisions\/19023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}