{"id":18270,"date":"2021-05-12T08:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=17810"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:13:29","slug":"feel-good-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/feel-good-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Good Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Living-Room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Living-Room-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17809\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s our latest LERN heroine story. So this rich kid left his flute, which is valued at $22,000, on the subway in Chicago.  A homeless guy in his thirties found it, took it to a pawn shop. The pawn shop owner recognized it, because the story of the lost flute was in all the media, and called the rich music student.<br \/>\nThe homeless guy asked for a reward of $500, and the rich kid refused.  The New York Times vilified the homeless kid, Lucas, in a front page story. So millions of people read about it.<br \/>\nThen some people around the country set up a GoFundMe for the homeless young man.  They raised $15,000. But Lucas had no money to set up a bank account and access the money, so he tweeted that.  LERN\u2019s Julie Coates texted him to send him the money. \u201cYou want it sent Western Union, right?\u201d Julie asked. \u201cHow did you know?\u201d Lucas replied. \u201cThis ain\u2019t my first rodeo,\u201d responded Julie, as she has helped other homeless people before.<br \/>\nSo Julie sends the money to set up a bank account, and pay for one night\u2019s lodging to get him warm for the night. Lucas and his girlfriend, also named Julie, know it\u2019s a risk- &#8211; some people would just spend the money on alcohol or drugs. So he appreciates it so much.<br \/>\nLucas spent the whole amount of GoFundMe on a year\u2019s lease on an apartment, so he and his girlfriend wouldn\u2019t be homeless anymore. Photo: Lucas\u2019 new apartment. Then he went out and, now that he has an address, got a job.  Lucas and Julie stay in touch. Our LERN feel good story of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s our latest LERN heroine story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lern-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18889,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions\/18889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}