{"id":86274,"date":"2024-10-24T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=86274"},"modified":"2024-10-24T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:03:22","slug":"police-officer-surprises-7-year-old-boy-selling-lemonade-with-a-pair-of-brand-new-sneakers-for-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/police-officer-surprises-7-year-old-boy-selling-lemonade-with-a-pair-of-brand-new-sneakers-for-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Surprises 7-Year-Old Boy Selling Lemonade With A Pair Of Brand New Sneakers For School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn\u2019t love a good ol\u2019 fashioned lemonade stand?\n</p><p>There\u2019s nothing like coming upon a child eagerly waiting to sell you a cup of ice cold lemonade on a bright sunny day.\n</p><p>Recently, a young boy named Landen was selling lemonade and cookies near his home when a police officer approached him. The boy\u2019s grandmother captured their interaction and shared it on Facebook.\n</p><p>\u201cJust saying we are so quick to put down how BAD we get treated sometimes but I have to say i was blessed by officer J Perez Ansonia PD.\u201d\n<figure id='\"attachment_86275\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-86275\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-86275' size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/download-1.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"720\"' height='\"960\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-1.png' https: sizes='\"auto,'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-86275\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>Credit: Wendelyn Narvaez\/Facebook\n<p>Officer Perez of Ansonia Police Department in Connecticut took the time to chat with Landen and asked him what he hoped to do with the money he earned from selling lemonade.\n</p><p>Landen said he needed to buy blue sneakers for school.\n</p><p>The two wrapped up their conversation, and Officer Perez went on his way.\n</p><p>A little while later Officer Perez returned to the seven-year-old\u2019s lemonade stand, and this time he had something for Landen \u2013 a pair of blue sneakers.\n</p><p>Landen was thrilled, to say the least.\n<figure id='\"attachment_86276\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-86276\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-86276' size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/download.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1536\"' height='\"2048\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download.png' https: sizes='\"auto,'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-86276\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>Credit: Wendelyn Narvaez\/Facebook\n<p>\u201cHe made my baby\u2019s day yesterday and not only that, he made him feel like a king,\u201d Wendelyn Narvaez said of Officer Perez.\n</p><p>Days later Narvaez shared a photo of Landen happily sporting his new sneakers.\n</p><p>Ansonia Police Chief Wayne Williams responded to Perez\u2019s act of kindness by saying officers like Perez \u201care the types of officers that we are all looking to hire.\u201d\n</p><p>It is so true. We often hear the bad things that police officers do, but not the good things. This was such a kind gesture.\n</p><p>Please share if you want to hear more stories of police officers doing good in their community.\n</p><p>Source: newsner\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Who doesn\u2019t love a good ol\u2019 fashioned lemonade stand? There\u2019s nothing like coming upon a child eagerly waiting to sell you a cup of ice cold lemonade on a bright sunny day. Recently, a young boy named Landen was selling lemonade and cookies near his home when a police officer approached him. The boy\u2019s grandmother &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":86277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86278,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86274\/revisions\/86278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></figcaption></figure></p></figcaption></figure></p>