{"id":30960,"date":"2022-08-25T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=30960"},"modified":"2022-08-25T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:12:12","slug":"twin-sisters-and-one-million-free-throws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/08\/twin-sisters-and-one-million-free-throws\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Sisters And One Million Free Throws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/twin-sisters-save-woman-medical-emergency-flight-boston-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two twin sisters saved a woman\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who had a diabetic emergency on a flight from Boston to Fort Myers, Florida this month.\u00a0 One of them is a nurse, and the other is a firefighter and paramedic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Almost two decades ago, a basketball fan near Seattle named Tom Steury set a goal for himself to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/erics-heroes\/seattle-man-celebrates-82nd-birthday-with-one-millionth-free-throw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">make a million free throws<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 And he finally did it last Thursday on his 82nd birthday.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He initially started by taking 100 shots a day, and he&#8217;s gotten pretty good at it.\u00a0 He\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/erics-heroes\/erics-heroes-the-free-throw-shooter-basketball-seattle-washington\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0his shooting percentage is around 94% now, and he once made 222 in a row.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Here&#8217;s an insane stat:\u00a0 The world record is\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/64661-most-consecutive-basketball-free-throws\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5,221 in a row<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 21:34:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/08\/twin-sisters-and-one-million-free-throws\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30960","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=30960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30961,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30960\/revisions\/30961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}