{"id":25220,"date":"2021-09-29T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=25220"},"modified":"2021-09-29T05:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:13:50","slug":"thank-you-note-70-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/09\/thank-you-note-70-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Note&#8230; 70 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The London, Kentucky, police department received a letter thanking them for their random act of kindness more than seven decades ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 1950, a young couple stopped in London for lunch, and when they returned to their car, they found a red card under the windshield wiper that had the town&#8217;s parking regulations on it, instead of a ticket. Decades later, the man has returned the card to thank the police, saying his wife carried it with her until the day she died.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He wrote, &#8220;For two 17 yr. olds we didn\u2019t have extra money for a parking ticket. My wife carried this card in all her wallets since then &amp; we often talked about how kind your city is. I have lost her &amp; just wanted to send this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you.&#8221; A police spokesman wrote on Facebook, &#8220;While saddened to learn of the circumstances that prompted this letter . . . the London Police Department was touched to learn that an act of kindness by one of our officers 71 years ago positively impacted a young couple just starting out and passing through our little town.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":24579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 00:31:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/09\/thank-you-note-70-years-later\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25220","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=25220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25221,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25220\/revisions\/25221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}