{"id":12389,"date":"2015-09-16T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12389"},"modified":"2015-09-16T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:12:11","slug":"video-boy-who-received-thousands-of-books-after-mail-carriers-plea-shares-the-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/16\/video-boy-who-received-thousands-of-books-after-mail-carriers-plea-shares-the-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Boy who received thousands of books after mail carrier&#8217;s plea shares the wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mf236\">It isn&#8217;t unusual for the Salt Lake County Library to get book donations. But a generous offer from a 12-year-old boy has generated a lot of buzz.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mf237\">&#8220;The response is just incredible and it&#8217;s very heartwarming to see,&#8221; said Greg Near, public relations coordinator for the Salt Lake County Library. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/boy-donates-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12390\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/boy-donates-books.jpg\" alt=\"boy-donates-books\" width=\"319\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/boy-donates-books.jpg 433w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/boy-donates-books-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"mf238\">In July, KSL first told you about Mathew Flores and his love of reading. He didn&#8217;t have many books of his own and when mail carrier Ron Lynch first met Mathew, Mathew was reading junk mail.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mf239\">So Lynch posted the boy&#8217;s picture on Facebook and asked his friends to donate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mf240\">Soon, books arrived for Mathew from all over the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=36538531&amp;nid=960&amp;title=boy-who-received-thousands-of-books-shares-the-wealth&amp;s_cid=queue-11\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/api\/jwplayer\/player.php?file=http:\/\/media.ksl.com\/1442363774-798165976.mp4&amp;image=\/\/media.ksl.com\/1442363774-798165976.jpg&amp;width=475&amp;height=360\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t unusual for the Salt Lake County Library to get book donations. But a generous offer from a 12-year-old boy has generated a lot of buzz. &#8220;The response is just incredible and it&#8217;s very heartwarming to see,&#8221; said Greg Near, public relations coordinator for the Salt Lake County Library. In July, KSL first told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","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\/12389","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=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12393,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions\/12393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}