{"id":306,"date":"2013-04-20T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/20\/time-for-a-little-braggin"},"modified":"2013-04-20T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T17:15:00","slug":"time-for-a-little-braggin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Time for a little braggin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Allow me this moment to boast about a member of my family.<\/p>\n<p>Our great-nephew Noah Pearson is a 10-year-old with a huge heart. He lives in Albany, Ore., and is an accomplished bowler. He also is orchestrating a fundraiser scheduled for April 28 to raise money for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/democratherald.com\/news\/local\/bowling-to-help-boston\/article_11c14538-a97c-11e2-a0ff-0019bb2963f4.html\">http:\/\/democratherald.com\/news\/local\/bowling-to-help-boston\/article_11c14538-a97c-11e2-a0ff-0019bb2963f4.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>His hometown paper, the Albany Democrat-Herald, published a story about Noah\u2019s effort. So far, according to the paper, Noah is getting a lot of attention \u2013 which is translating to a lot of tangible interest in his bowling tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Others around the country no doubt are putting together programs to raise money to help the victims of the bombing. Noah\u2019s intrepid spirit and his outward expression of compassion, though, simply blows me away. OK, I know what you\u2019re thinking: Yeah, he\u2019s family; of course he would blow you away. Well, I\u2019m not the only one who is taken by Noah\u2019s selflessness. <\/p>\n<p>Bowling alley owner Roger Nyquist is, too. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Democrat-Herald story, \u201cHe (Noah) sat down, looked me right in the eye and expressed his feelings about what had happened, and he had a plan, and he pitched it to me,\u201d Nyquist recalled. \u201cIt\u2019s neat to see somebody that young acknowledge what they\u2019re feeling and in short order come up with a constructive activity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeat\u201d isn\u2019t quite the word I\u2019d use. \u201cAstonishing\u201d is more to my liking. <\/p>\n<p>Well done, Noah.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me this moment to boast about a member of my family. Our great-nephew Noah Pearson is a 10-year-old with a huge heart. He lives in Albany, Ore., and is an accomplished bowler. He also is orchestrating a fundraiser scheduled for April 28 to raise money for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. http:\/\/democratherald.com\/news\/local\/bowling-to-help-boston\/article_11c14538-a97c-11e2-a0ff-0019bb2963f4.html &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time for a little braggin\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}