{"id":615815,"date":"2025-12-21T00:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/615815\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:22:13","slug":"carolina-panthers-spread-holiday-cheer-at-north-charlotte-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/615815\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers spread holiday cheer at north Charlotte event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9057b7d3a26d28400e0fdadfec08f4b2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From funnel cakes to free winter coats, Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn helped spread holiday cheer in north Charlotte Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He partnered with organizations like United Way and Life Project from Northside Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/panthers-host-annual-joy-carolinas-event\/RS5PM5PHWFGEBHMXSMDUVUPSSM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO READ: Panthers host annual Joy to the Carolinas event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ALSO READ: Panthers host annual Joy to the Carolinas event<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kids got new coats from Old Navy. Local business owners also stepped up, providing free food, haircuts and spending time with kids and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt means so much for us to be able to walk alongside them and then deliver,\u201d said Life Project\u2019s Executive Director Veronica Washington. \u201cWe want to be family, we want to be community, and this is a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe balloons, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, Old Navy. We\u2019re so grateful to Old Navy to come out and give back and partner with us,\u201c said Lacreshia Horn, Jaycee Horn\u2019s mother. \u201dAlso Life Project and any other sponsors that came near and far. We\u2019re very happy and excited to see the Christmas spirit in a joyful way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers told Channel 9 they served 150 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WATCH: \u2018A true blessing\u2019: Charlotte Hornet, Boys and Girls Club surprise families in Concord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From funnel cakes to free winter coats, Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn helped spread holiday cheer in north Charlotte&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,91310,6457,91309,6,91308,91306,236,91311,91307],"class_list":{"0":"post-615815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-funnel-cakes","13":"tag-jaycee-horn","14":"tag-life-project","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-northside-baptist-church","17":"tag-old-navy","18":"tag-panthers","19":"tag-spread-holiday-cheer","20":"tag-winter-coats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115754706177485197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}