{"id":2981,"date":"2021-06-18T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2021-06-18T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:43:15","slug":"highland-avenue-hosts-vaccination-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/06\/18\/highland-avenue-hosts-vaccination-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Avenue hosts vaccination clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hacob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren<\/a> in Elgin, Illinois hosted a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for the homeless community on June 12, 2021. The effort was the focus of an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/news\/20210609\/elgin-church-to-host-vax-clinic-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\">article in the\u00a0<em>Daily Herald<\/em><\/a>, a newspaper covering the cities and suburbs west of Chicago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clinic provided the Johnson and Johnson one-shot vaccine, in conjunction with the weekly Soup Kettle that offers a free, hot meal every Saturday. Though intended for the homeless, the clinic was  free to anyone wanting to be vaccinated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soup Kettle organizers sent cars to parks and other areas where the homeless typically gather, offering free rides to the clinic. Those vaccinated received snacks and beverages, a cash payment of $5, and were entered in a raffle for groceries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/highland-avenue-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/highland-avenue-church.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/highland-avenue-church-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/highland-avenue-church-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/highland-avenue-church-560x280.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren hosted a COVID-19 vaccination clinic designed for the homeless community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,1],"tags":[83,84,81,80,82,85],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois-and-wisconsin","category-uncategorized","tag-06-090","tag-covid-19","tag-elgin","tag-highland-avenue-church-of-the-brethren","tag-illinois","tag-vaccinations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}