{"id":30178,"date":"2012-05-30T20:13:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30178"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:16:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:16:56","slug":"brendan-haas-gives-away-his-free-disney-world-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30178","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Haas gives away his free Disney World trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BRENDAN-HAAS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BRENDAN-HAAS.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BRENDAN-HAAS\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30179\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Several of you sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/m.yahoo.com\/w\/legobpengine\/news\/blogs\/sideshow\/boy-disney-trip-soldier-fallen-family-facebook-132933068.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&#038;.intl=US&#038;.lang=en-US\">this link to a story<\/a> about a 9-year-old boy from Massachusetts, Brendan Haas, who traded up for a free trip to Disney World and then gave it away to the family of a fallen soldier;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brendan Haas created the &#8220;Soldier for a Soldier&#8221; Facebook page in February. Inspired by the story of the guy who, through a series of trades, turned a paper clip into a house, Haas started with a toy soldier and eventually traded up to USD 900 worth of Disney gift certificates, airfare and hotel credits.<\/p>\n<p>On Memorial Day, Haas gave the trip to the family of U.S. Army Lt. Timothy Steele, a 25-year-old soldier killed in Afghanistan last year. According to NBC&#8217;s WHDH-TV affiliate, Haas pulled the name of Liberty Hope Steele, the fallen soldier&#8217;s now-2-year-old daughter, out of a hat and surprised the Steele family at their Duxbury, Mass., home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.whdh.com\/news\/articles\/local\/south\/12007594149745\/boy-gives-family-of-fallen-soldier-a-trip-to-disney-world\/\">WHDH<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Timothy Steele was killed last August in Afghanistan. He was 25 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTim was pretty special to us,\u201d said Jack Steele, Timothy\u2019s father. \u201cHe knew what he wanted to do at a very young age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The soldier left behind a wife and a 2-year-old daughter named Liberty Hope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can I possibly add?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you sent us this link to a story about a 9-year-old boy from Massachusetts, &hellip; <a title=\"Brendan Haas gives away his free Disney World trip\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30178\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brendan Haas gives away his free Disney World trip<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}