{"id":31674,"date":"2022-10-18T05:41:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=31674"},"modified":"2022-10-18T05:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:41:57","slug":"help-for-a-single-mom-and-an-incredible-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/10\/help-for-a-single-mom-and-an-incredible-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Help For A Single Mom And An Incredible Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A single mom in Australia was\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11277303\/Perth-mum-forced-live-car-six-year-old-child-housing-crisis-grips-nation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>living out of her car with her six-year-old son<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/11\/heartwarming-twist-after-post-about-homeless-child-goes-viral\/\"><b>posted<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0on Facebook asking for help finding a safe place to park and sleep at night.\u00a0 But instead of helping, a few heartless jerks responded with THREATS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One woman did step up to help though.\u00a0 A therapist named Claire Orange invited them to stay with her in her home, and also started a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/charlie-mackays-new-life?qid=dd61998c88987693d3e53c16020365a6\"><b>GoFundMe<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0campaign.\u00a0 It hit over $20,000 before they closed off donations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 23-year-old named Chris Nikic just became the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/health\/running\/culture-running\/people\/chris-nikic-first-athlete-down-syndrome-ironman-world-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman race<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and then a full 26.2-mile marathon.\u00a0 He finished in 16 hours and 31 minutes, with almost a full half-hour to spare before the 17-hour cutoff.<\/span><\/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-31674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 08:50:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/10\/help-for-a-single-mom-and-an-incredible-athlete\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31674","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=31674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31675,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31674\/revisions\/31675"}],"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=31674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}