{"id":8640,"date":"2022-10-01T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:34:55","slug":"playing-for-the-teen-kitchen-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/playing-for-the-teen-kitchen-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for The Teen Kitchen Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago &#8211; pre-global pandemic &#8211; my wife and I went to a fundraising dinner for The Teen Kitchen Project. We quickly became big fans. Last year, when the annual dinner resumed, I played solo for them at an outdoor farm in Davenport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tkp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tkp-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tkp-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tkp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tkp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tkp.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> This year, I was invited back and came with Greg Abelar, my bass player. We had a blast. The Teen Kitchen Project is a a pretty unique nonprofit that serves TWO communities: Kids get culinary skills from volunteer chefs, and then the food they cook is delivered to people who are homebound.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re always happy to play for them and be a tiny part of their fundraising activities.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about these cool folks here at\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fteenkitchenproject.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3RAXoOWnyGJNi6Y6shDVpnFf-Cgfugft8oRmlTvAbM2P1gqz1vqjOxRJk&amp;h=AT21zO6F2RBAZoFocC3ro5XE2DfSgmQ0eIQTrez6HTaBi4RmWzsTRktxmSzWPdk1-ofLnmMqGA9ZW1cQ5cohA3S6-eNO-iz51Hs9IvmZsMs0bniFXO4wfjxK39kIFQJ5hTsRgg8vTWPMrhB_HPQvgcQ&amp;__tn__=-UK*F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">teenkitchenproject.org<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fplaying-for-the-teen-kitchen-project%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago &#8211; pre-global pandemic &#8211; my wife and I went to a fundraising dinner for The Teen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}