{"id":1721,"date":"2007-12-22T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T05:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2007-12-22T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T05:14:35","slug":"the-sole-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"The Sole Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bfknewshoesinstore.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bfknewshoesinstore.gif','popup','width=252,height=379,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bfknewshoesinstore-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bfknewshoesinstore\" \/><\/a>Thought we&#8217;re not big fans of <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> or her TV show, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/23\/lifeandtimes\/11_23_1512_22_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Oprah is responsible for inspiring a Carlsbad couple to create something good for the community. <strong>Loretta<\/strong> and <strong>Dan Ross<\/strong> started <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barefootkids.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Barefoot Kids Foundation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rosses didn&#8217;t have to look far to find a good cause to which to devote their extra time and money. . . &#8220;My son&#8217;s a teacher (in North County) and he said he saw many of his elementary school kids wearing their siblings&#8217; battered shoes,&#8221; said Ross, who works full time in the elder-care field. &#8220;There are some kids who have never gone to a shoe store to get new shoes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Rosses teamed up with <strong>Payless Shoe Source<\/strong> to provide free $25 gift cards for kids who need shoes. So far the foundation has given away &#8220;a couple hundred&#8221; cards, but the Rosses say they&#8217;d like to eventually give out thousands. And that sounds like a great idea. Click the link for more information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/23\/lifeandtimes\/11_23_1512_22_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barefootkids.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barefoot Kids<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought we&#8217;re not big fans of Oprah Winfrey or her TV show, according to a story in the North County Times, Oprah is responsible for inspiring a Carlsbad couple to create something good for the community. Loretta and Dan Ross started The Barefoot Kids Foundation. The Rosses didn&#8217;t have to look far to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}