{"id":5100,"date":"2015-09-17T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2015-09-17T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:19:29","slug":"american-retirement-advisors-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/american-retirement-advisors-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"American Retirement Advisors Gives Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yesterday\u00a0our American Retirement Advisors and Futurity First team spent the morning volunteering with\u00a0Packages from Home, an organization that sends care packages to our soldiers overseas!\u00a0\u00a0 We carefully packed a variety of snacks and candy into a box along with letters we\u2019d written beforehand expressing our gratitude for their service. \u00a0We had a great time today working together to support our troops and are excited that we could make a small 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