{"id":396,"date":"2020-11-11T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:00:07","slug":"my-country-99-3-joins-forces-with-country-icon-jo-dee-messina-local-teen-for-christmas-charity-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"My Country 99.3 joins forces with Country icon Jo Dee Messina, local teen for Christmas charity effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRIFFIN, Ga.<\/strong> &#8212; My Country is thrilled to join forces with &#8217;90s and 2000&#8217;s Country icon, Jo Dee Messina and Sasha Horton, a Georgia teenager, to bring Christmas joy to hundreds of underprivileged children locally and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha Horton is a 15-year-old from Griffin, born in a Ukranian orphange before being adopted by her parents and relocating to Georgia. Sasha is a recipient of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse and their popular &#8220;Operation Christmas Child&#8221; campaign, which packs shoeboxes and sends to children around the world who otherwise would not be able to experience Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she wants to pay it back &#8212; trying to collect hundreds of shoeboxes full of Christmas gifts and raising thousands to cover the shipping cost. Her story caught Jo Dee Messina&#8217;s eye and ours, too, which is why we&#8217;re proud to join forces with the &#8220;Heads Carolina, Tails California&#8221; singer to help get the word out about this incredibly worthy cause.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for collections is November 24th and you can hear more about how you can get involved this Friday morning at 7:45am when Jo Dee and Sasha join Joel Williams on My Country 99.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRIFFIN, Ga. &#8212; My Country is thrilled to join forces with &#8217;90s and 2000&#8217;s Country icon, Jo Dee Messina and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habershambroadcasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}