{"id":56552,"date":"2018-02-12T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56552"},"modified":"2018-02-12T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:22:58","slug":"this-young-man-with-down-syndrome-starts-his-own-million-dollar-sock-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/02\/12\/this-young-man-with-down-syndrome-starts-his-own-million-dollar-sock-company\/","title":{"rendered":"This young man with Down Syndrome starts his own million-dollar sock company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee Cronin is a young man with Down&#8217;s Syndrome and he&#8217;s on a mission &#8212; he wants to spread happiness and cheer through colorful socks! The 21-year-old entrepreneur decided to turn his love for socks into a business once he graduated from high school.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2016, John and his dad Mark Cronin started an online business and named it John&#8217;s Crazy Socks. It is basically a pick-and-pack warehouse, which means they distribute socks made by other companies.<\/p>\n<p>In a little over a year, John&#8217;s Crazy Socks had shipped more than 42,000 orders and brought in nearly $2 million in revenue. They currently offer 1,500 different kinds of socks.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, their business\u00a0hires people with disabilities.\u00a0John&#8217;s Crazy Socks also donates 5 percent of its profits to the Special Olympics. John himself is a Special Olympics athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2639\/Young-Man-With-Down-Syndrome-Starts-Million-Dollar-Company-Spreads-Happiness-Through-Socks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2639\/Young-Man-With-Down-Syndrome-Starts-Million-Dollar-Company-Spreads-Happiness-Through-Socks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lee Cronin is a young man with Down&#8217;s Syndrome and he&#8217;s on a mission &#8212; he wants to spread happiness and cheer through colorful socks! The 21-year-old entrepreneur decided to turn his love for socks into a business once he graduated from high school. In December 2016, John and his dad Mark Cronin started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}