{"id":88743,"date":"2015-11-30T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88743"},"modified":"2015-11-30T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:27:29","slug":"mn-salvation-army-get-500k-check-in-kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88743","title":{"rendered":"Mn Salvation Army gets $500K check in kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SalarmyChristmascheck2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-88744\" alt=\"SalarmyChristmascheck2015\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SalarmyChristmascheck2015-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SalarmyChristmascheck2015-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SalarmyChristmascheck2015-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SalarmyChristmascheck2015-262x175.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2013 This is one check the Salvation Army is counting on to clear.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salvation Army officials in Minnesota and North Dakota say a couple dropped a $500,000 check into a red kettle outside a Cub Foods in suburban Minneapolis on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spokeswoman Annette Bauer says it\u2019s the biggest check ever in the Minneapolis area and likely the biggest ever in the two states.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bauer says the couple has a history of donations and prefers to remain anonymous. She said they alerted Salvation Army officials that the check was coming and asked them to open the kettle and remove the check before volunteers who count donations could see their names.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bauer called it \u201can astonishing gift\u201d and that the division was running about a half-million dollars behind the same point last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2013 This is one check the Salvation Army is counting on to clear. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salvation Army officials in Minnesota and North Dakota say a couple dropped a $500,000 check into a red kettle outside a Cub Foods in suburban Minneapolis on Saturday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spokeswoman Annette Bauer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88746,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88743\/revisions\/88746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}