{"id":33863,"date":"2014-11-30T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=33863"},"modified":"2014-11-30T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:47:43","slug":"hundreds-in-lehigh-acres-participate-in-small-business-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/11\/hundreds-in-lehigh-acres-participate-in-small-business-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds In Lehigh Acres <br>Participate In Small Business Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33864\" title=\"sbd1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sbd1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sbd1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sbd1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hundreds came out in Lehigh Acres this Saturday to support small businesses at The 1st Community Congregational Church on Leeland Heights Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s the &#8220;small&#8221; shopping experience that has more and more people choosing to shop local<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels more personal than your big box, mall experience,&#8221; shopper said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;That&#8217;s kind of the backbone of our country are small businesses,&#8221; shopper Sara said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Small Businesses Administration, spending 100 bucks at a small business puts about $68 back into the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Making shopping local a win, win for the shop owners and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo Vendors, it was you who made our first shop small Lehigh Acres a success! In combination of lunch sales and most of your vendor fees, Helping Hands Ministry was able to put in close to $600 into their funds. Helping Hands ministry helps to feed on an average of over 1000 people a week in our community! From our hearts to yours, you rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds came out in Lehigh Acres this Saturday to support small businesses at The 1st Community Congregational Church on Leeland Heights Blvd. And it&#8217;s the &#8220;small&#8221; shopping experience that has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}