{"id":61840,"date":"2026-01-28T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61840"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:10:55","slug":"emergency-shelter-response-activated-in-lakeland-and-winter-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/28\/emergency-shelter-response-activated-in-lakeland-and-winter-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Shelter Response Activated in Lakeland and Winter Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"8a9093\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8a9093;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"163\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Talbot-House.webp?resize=310%2C163\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60546 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Talbot-House.webp?w=310&amp;ssl=1 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Talbot-House.webp?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>As dangerously cold weather settles over Polk County, Talbot House Ministries in Lakeland and our Center for Women &amp; Children in Winter Haven are stepping up emergency shelter operations to ensure no one is left in harm\u2019s way. Our facilities are operating beyond normal capacity and will remain open 24 hours a day until temperatures are unsafe. Individuals and families may arrive at any time, day or night, and no one will be turned away. We are calling on our community to respond with compassion and urgency. Your help is needed now more than ever.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As dangerously cold weather settles over Polk County, Talbot House Ministries in Lakeland and our Center for Women &amp; Children in Winter Haven are stepping up emergency shelter operations to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDFcL1RhbGJvdC1Ib3VzZS53ZWJwP2ZpdD0zMTAlMkMxNjMmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJFbWVyZ2VuY3kgU2hlbHRlciBSZXNwb25zZSBBY3RpdmF0ZWQgaW4gTGFrZWxhbmQgYW5kIFdpbnRlciBIYXZlbiIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.Brrb6QTN9DcPxtT-_l-m8avvKfroYryc503J0feoQN0MQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":60546,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Talbot-House.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[13388],"class_list":["post-61840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-emergency-shelter-response-activated-in-lakeland-and-winter-haven"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61841,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840\/revisions\/61841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}