{"id":18979,"date":"2012-06-17T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2012-06-17T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T18:22:52","slug":"hometown-heroes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18979","title":{"rendered":"National Aviation \/ Hometown Heroes Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum<br \/>\nPier 86 12th Ave. &amp; 46th Street, New York, NY 10036<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18980\" title=\"Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Intrepid-Sea-Air-Space-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hometown Heroes Day is the culmination of a summer long essay program created to allow everyday residents of NY, NJ &amp; CT the opportunity of nominating their \u2018Hero\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Categories include Community Service, Mentor, Youth Community Service, and Serviceperson. Essays are judged by a team of Intrepid Museum educators. The top nominee in each of these four categories is recognized on Hometown Heroes Day for their outstanding contributions.<\/p>\n<p>During the entire day, many community organizations are represented on Pier 86 to provide awareness and the opportunity to get involved. Organizations such as Red Cross, Salvation Army, Boys &amp; Girls Club and various volunteer groups will have pier booths to allow the public to learn more. For more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrepidmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\"><cite>www.<strong>intrepidmuseum<\/strong>.org<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum Pier 86 12th Ave. &amp; 46th Street, New York, NY 10036<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18982,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions\/18982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}