{"id":767,"date":"2026-08-06T21:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/?page_id=767"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:33:52","slug":"good-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/good-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Good Neighbor Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/neighboring-activity-week-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Neighboring Activity Week logo\" width=\"470\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/neighboring-activity-week-logo.jpg 470w, https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/neighboring-activity-week-logo-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;What we celebrate, we encourage. Recognizing good neighbors reminds us that kindness, generosity, and connection are not rare \u2014 they are happening all around us.&#8221; &#8211; David Burton, Author and Creator, Missouri Good Neighbor Week<\/h3>\n<h4>The University of Missouri Extension is tracking acts of neighboring.\u00a0 Report an act of kindness or neighboring here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/missourigoodneighborweek.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/missourigoodneighborweek.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1786206833973000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1n-D27Udp6tXDNyQTY4Mr6\">https:\/\/missourigoodneighborweek.com\/<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>The City of Excelsior Springs has been recognized as one of Missouri\u2019s Most Neighborly Cities 2 years in a row thanks to your reported acts of neighboring!\u00a0 Let\u2019s see if we can make it 3 years in a row!<\/h4>\n<h3><strong>Missouri Good Neighbor Week Activities<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Monday Sept 28<br \/>\n<\/strong>Neighborhood cleanup (grab a neighbor, walk the neighborhood and pick up trash)<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Tuesday Sept 29<br \/>\n<\/strong>Take a treat or small gift to a neighbor<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Wednesday Sept 30<br \/>\n<\/strong>Have coffee with a neighbor<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Thursday October 1<br \/>\n<\/strong>Decorate your neighborhood with sidewalk chalk or with fall decor<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Friday October 2<br \/>\n<\/strong>Visit your neighborhood park or walk a nearby trail<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Saturday October 3<br \/>\n<\/strong>Block Party Weekend in ES<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Sunday October 4<br \/>\n<\/strong>Out and About in Your Neighborhood (take a walk in your neighborhood)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What we celebrate, we encourage. Recognizing good neighbors reminds us that kindness, generosity, and connection are not rare \u2014 they are happening all around us.&#8221; &#8211; David Burton, Author and <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/good-neighbors\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_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":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}