{"id":24558,"date":"2021-08-27T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=24558"},"modified":"2021-08-27T05:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:20:28","slug":"a-deluge-of-stuffed-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/08\/a-deluge-of-stuffed-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deluge Of Stuffed Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A single mom in Oklahoma named Tiffany Holloway\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2021\/08\/23\/reddit-birthday-gift-sew-mantaray\/\"><b>wanted<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0to buy a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/mom-sews-manta-ray-for-sons-birthday-when-she-cant-buy-one-and-a-tide-of-kindness-floods-in-from-strangers\/\"><b>manta ray stuffed animal<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, because her son asked for one for his fifth birthday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But she only had $2 in her bank account.\u00a0 So she grabbed a needle and thread and made one out of his old baby blanket, with buttons for eyes.\u00a0 And she did a great job with it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was so proud, she posted a photo on Reddit that got 66,000 likes in a single day.\u00a0 Then people asked if they could send her son MORE gifts . . . and he&#8217;s now gotten over 150 stuffed manta rays in the mail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he says the one his mom made is his favorite.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>(There&#8217;s also a\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-for-tiffany-and-her-four-children\"><b><i>GoFundMe<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0that&#8217;s raised thousands of dollars to help them out.)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":23768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 16:18:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/08\/a-deluge-of-stuffed-animals\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24559,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558\/revisions\/24559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}