{"id":39016,"date":"2013-12-25T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39016"},"modified":"2013-12-26T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T14:02:36","slug":"your-own-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39016","title":{"rendered":"Your own Christmas story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You guys made this happen. One of our ninjas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38885\">sent us a message<\/a> from the folks at Honor Flight, Myrtle Beach about Calvin Harrison, a 91-year-old World War II veteran asking for cards and Christmas wishes for Calvin. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbtw.com\/story\/24289089\/world-war-ii-veteran-in-florence-gets-hundreds-of-christmas-cards\">I guess y&#8217;all responded<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of cards, gifts and even heartfelt letters pile in by the bundles, all to say thank you. They&#8217;re saying thank you to Calvin Harrison, a 91-year-old World War II veteran who is terminally ill<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Hyatt, Calvin&#8217;s social worker said, &#8220;We have more good days than bad&#8230; A lot of the times now he smiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outpouring of love and support gas lifted his spirits this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Hyatt said, &#8220;Watching him open those cards and go through those arrangements, that was a Christmas present for me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WBTW.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=478712;hostDomain=www.wbtw.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9662326;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbtw.com\" title=\"WBTW-TV: News, Weather, and Sports for Florence, SC \">WBTW-TV: News, Weather, and Sports for Florence, SC <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mariya for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys made this happen. One of our ninjas sent us a message from the folks &hellip; <a title=\"Your own Christmas story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39016\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your own Christmas story<\/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-39016","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\/39016","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=39016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}