{"id":705404,"date":"2026-04-08T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705404\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:12:29","slug":"charlotte-hornets-team-up-with-food-lion-to-feed-local-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705404\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets team up with Food Lion to feed local kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets and Food Lion Feeds packed thousands of backpacks Monday for local kids facing food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of their Backpack for Hunger initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers loaded them up with staples, like peanut butter and granola bars.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Even Hornets legend Mugsy Bogues offered up his time to help the cause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/charlotte-hornets-foundation-awards-100000-women-led-organizations\/MNZAOQI3OFFDTBWBWQV6OYYG4E\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO READ &gt;&gt; Charlotte Hornets Foundation awards $100,000 to women-led organizations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ALSO READ &amp;gt&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ALSO READ &gt;&gt; Charlotte Hornets Foundation awards $100,000 to women-led organizations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The organizations also partnered with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.<\/p>\n<p>The backpacks full of essentials will be given the students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools district during the holiday break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets and Food Lion Feeds packed thousands of backpacks Monday for local kids facing food insecurity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,88335,3878,20932,88333,88336,685,88334,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-705404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlotte-mecklenburg-schools","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-food-insecurity","14":"tag-food-lion","15":"tag-granola-bars","16":"tag-hornets","17":"tag-mugsy-bogues","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116369735344511354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}