{"id":34698,"date":"2023-05-12T05:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=34698"},"modified":"2023-05-12T05:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:10:16","slug":"sending-kids-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/05\/sending-kids-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending Kids To College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/134629\"><b>heard about this guy<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0a few years ago, but he&#8217;s trending again:\u00a0 In 2005, a guy in Iowa named Dale Schroeder passed away at age 86 . . . and used his $3 MILLION life savings to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/this-is-iowa-dale-schroeder-des-moines-man-used-secret-fortune-to-send-strangers-to-college\/43635639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>send 33 kids to college<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He grew up poor, never married, and worked as a carpenter for 67 years.\u00a0 But he still managed to squirrel money away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since he never got to go to college, he wanted to help other kids go.\u00a0 His only ask was that they pay it forward someday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/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-34698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 20:53:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/05\/sending-kids-to-college\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698","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=34698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34701,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions\/34701"}],"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=34698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}