{"id":21684,"date":"2023-08-18T08:16:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21684"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:17:14","slug":"south-texas-va-ambitious-food-insecurity-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21684","title":{"rendered":"South Texas VA ambitious food insecurity program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air Force and Marine Corps Veteran Joseph McDonald was hungry, and he described the thoughts that came to him when he was food insecure: devastation, hopelessness, depression. \u201cI just want to give up. Maybe I can go a week without eating and not letting anyone know. I\u2019ll just drink water. It\u2019s more important than food. Am I going to starve? Am I going to die?\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/122717\/south-texas-va-food-insecurity-program\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/122717\/south-texas-va-food-insecurity-program\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"60\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) Air Force and Marine Corps Veteran Joseph McDonald was hungry, and he described the thoughts that came<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784,7],"tags":[382,839,87,245],"class_list":["post-21684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-insecurity","category-veterans-benefits","tag-food-insecurity","tag-the-va-nutrition-and-food-services-website","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21685,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684\/revisions\/21685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}