{"id":20311,"date":"2013-03-28T13:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20311"},"modified":"2013-03-28T13:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:23:38","slug":"homeless-man-finds-job-reunites-with-family-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20311","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Man Finds Job, Reunites With Family After 16 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, MO &#8212;<strong> Billy Ray Harris<\/strong> was once a homeless man who spent his days on the streets of Kansas City asking others for their change.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <strong>Harris<\/strong> has a part-time job, is over $180,000 richer and most importantly, was reunited with his family on Sunday\u2019s episode of <em>The Today Show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What caused such a drastic change in luck? It can all be attributed to <strong>Harris\u2019<\/strong> good deed earlier this year when passerby <strong>Sarah Darling<\/strong> accidentally dropped her engagement ring, along with change, into <strong>Harris\u2019<\/strong> cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I finally decided to leave I got on my bike and dumped the change into my hand and there was the ring,\u201d <strong>Harris<\/strong> said. \u201cIt was really worth some money. Worth enough that he was ready to give me four grand right there on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But instead of cashing in the ring, <strong>Harris<\/strong> says he was raised to be an honest man and decided to hold on to the diamond band with hopes of returning it to its owner. The following day, <strong>Darling<\/strong> realized the mistake she had made and became overjoyed when she saw <strong>Harris<\/strong> had held on to her ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a feeling of loss when it was gone,\u201d <strong>Darling<\/strong> told <strong>Harris<\/strong>. \u201cI\u2019m so eternally grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, MO &#8212; Billy Ray Harris was once a homeless man who spent his days on the streets of Kansas City asking others for their change. Now, Harris has a part-time job, is over $180,000 richer and most importantly, was reunited with his family on Sunday\u2019s episode of The Today Show. What caused such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}