{"id":32976,"date":"2023-01-12T05:09:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=32976"},"modified":"2023-01-12T05:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:09:50","slug":"help-for-a-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/01\/help-for-a-vet\/","title":{"rendered":"Help For A Vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here&#8217;s a trend we hope continues:\u00a0 A TikToker in Maryland named Rory McCarty recently met an 82-year-old Walmart cashier named Butch Marion, who&#8217;s a Navy vet.\u00a0 And Butch was so nice, Rory started an online fundraiser . . . and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/82-year-old-walmart-employee-retires-after-viral-tiktok-leads-to-100000-gofundme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>raised over $100,000 to help him retire<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He gave Butch a giant check after his final day of work last week, and they both got pretty emotional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/167037\"><b>story<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in November about someone who did the same thing for an elderly lady at a Walmart in New Jersey.\u00a0 Rory says that story is what inspired him to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>(Butch&#8217;s\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/twkqg-butch\"><b><i>GoFundMe<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0is now up over $144,000.)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 03:24:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/01\/help-for-a-vet\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976","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=32976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32977,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976\/revisions\/32977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}