{"id":11789,"date":"2015-07-27T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2015-07-27T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:20:51","slug":"video-utah-mailmans-plea-for-books-gets-worldwide-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/27\/video-utah-mailmans-plea-for-books-gets-worldwide-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Utah mailman&#8217;s plea for books gets worldwide response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy, Utah &#8211; A postal carrier has delivered more than the mail to a Sandy boy, collecting shelves full of books for the child to read as his story has unexpectedly spread around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Lynch was delivering the mail when he spotted 12-year-old Mathew Flores fishing advertisements and newsletters out of a junk mail bin. The boy told the mail carrier that he was looking for something to read.<\/p>\n<p>Reading, he says, is interesting. &#8220;Plus, it gets you smarter,&#8221; he says. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=35674080&amp;nid=960&amp;fm=home_page&amp;s_cid=toppick4\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/api\/jwplayer\/player.php?file=http:\/\/media.ksl.com\/1437959942-110508519.mp4&amp;image=\/\/media.ksl.com\/1437959942-110508519.jpg&amp;width=475&amp;height=360\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Utah-Carrier-Ron-Lynch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11790\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Utah-Carrier-Ron-Lynch.jpg\" alt=\"Utah Carrier Ron Lynch\" width=\"443\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Utah-Carrier-Ron-Lynch.jpg 443w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Utah-Carrier-Ron-Lynch-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy, Utah &#8211; A postal carrier has delivered more than the mail to a Sandy boy, collecting shelves full of books for the child to read as his story has unexpectedly spread around the world. Ron Lynch was delivering the mail when he spotted 12-year-old Mathew Flores fishing advertisements and newsletters out of a junk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11791,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions\/11791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}