{"id":471971,"date":"2025-12-26T03:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:10:19","slug":"8th-shane-harris-christmas-breakfast-gift-giveaway-lifts-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471971\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Shane Harris Christmas breakfast, gift giveaway lifts spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Hall in City Heights opened its doors to hundreds of families in need Thursday morning for the 8th annual \u201cShane Harris Christmas Day Breakfast and Gift Giveaway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gathering served more than 500 foster youth, low-income and military families, and people experiencing homelessness with a hot meal, thousands of gifts and free groceries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was beyond what words can describe,\u201d said San Diego Public Advocate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaneharrissd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shane Harris<\/a>. \u201cSeeing so many smiling faces, hearing the laughter of children and knowing that we helped make this Christmas morning brighter \u2014 that\u2019s why we do this. This event exists to make every child feel seen and every family feel at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Harris-2.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Harris-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361192\"  \/><\/a>More than 500 families attended the 8th annual Harris Christmas Day breakfast and gift giveaway. (Photo courtesy of the office of Shane Harris)<\/p>\n<p>Harris said the Christmas Day event began eight years ago as a personal mission, inspired by his experience as a former foster youth who lost both parents at a young age. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas morning can be an incredibly lonely time for families facing hardship,\u201d Harris said. \u201cToday, we opened doors not just to a meal or gifts \u2014 but to connection, shared joy and a sense of belonging.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbus Hall in City Heights opened its doors to hundreds of families in need Thursday morning for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,214103,214104,41649,214105,16406,10553,3549,7264,152093,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-471971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-christmas-breakfast","12":"tag-columbus-hall","13":"tag-foster-youth","14":"tag-gift-giveaway","15":"tag-low-income-families","16":"tag-military-families","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-shane-harris","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115783678935904332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}