{"id":12774,"date":"2019-12-18T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=12774"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:54:36","slug":"pilots-spread-holiday-cheer-local-childrens-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/12\/18\/pilots-spread-holiday-cheer-local-childrens-hospital-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots spread holiday cheer at local children&#8217;s hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a small group of Envoy pilots, along with other pilot volunteers from various carriers,\u00a0visited the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scottishritehospital.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Scottish Rite Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a>\u00a0in Dallas, TX to help distribute gifts as part of the Pilots for Kids organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pilotsforkids.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pilots For Kids<\/a>\u00a0is an international, nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping hospitalized children. Each year, members of Pilots for Kids collect donated toys from\u00a0crew members to distribute at local hospitals, shelters, and orphanages. Besides toys, members have purchased other needed items, such as, wheelchairs, special hospital beds and other special equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heartwarming to see the joy in both the kids&#8217; and parents&#8217; eyes,&#8221; said Envoy First Officer <strong>Derek Schurman<\/strong>. &#8220;I\u2019d highly recommend it to any pilot; it was a really great experience and I enjoyed being able to give back this holiday season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to those\u00a0who donated their time, money and efforts to this great cause!\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pilotsforkids.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to learn more about Pilots for Kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a small group of Envoy pilots, along with other pilot volunteers from various carriers,\u00a0visited the\u00a0Texas Scottish Rite Children&#8217;s Hospital\u00a0in Dallas, TX to help distribute gifts as part of the Pilots for Kids organization. Pilots For Kids\u00a0is an international, nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping hospitalized children. Each year, members of Pilots for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":41965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}