{"id":56674,"date":"2018-03-13T07:07:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T07:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56674"},"modified":"2018-03-13T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T07:07:54","slug":"waitress-at-waffle-house-gets-16000-college-scholarship-for-cutting-up-an-elderly-customers-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/03\/13\/waitress-at-waffle-house-gets-16000-college-scholarship-for-cutting-up-an-elderly-customers-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitress at Waffle House gets $16,000 college scholarship for cutting up an elderly customer\u2019s food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evoni Williams, 18, works as a waitress at a Waffle House in La Marque, TX, to save up for college. One of her customers, an elderly man who\u2019d recently undergone a surgery, was finding it difficult to cut up his ham.<\/p>\n<p>The man told Williams that his hands weren\u2019t \u2018working too good\u2019. He was also on oxygen and struggling to breathe. That\u2019s when she took his plate and cut up his food.<\/p>\n<p>Her kind gesture didn\u2019t go unnoticed (it got recorded on camera) and caught the attention of Texas Southern University, which surprised her with a scholarship totaling $16,000 &#8211; $4,000 for each of four semesters.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2680\/Waffle-House-Waitress-Who-Helped-An-Elderly-Man-Cut-Up-His-Food-Gets-A-16-000-College-Scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2680\/Waffle-House-Waitress-Who-Helped-An-Elderly-Man-Cut-Up-His-Food-Gets-A-16-000-College-Scholarship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evoni Williams, 18, works as a waitress at a Waffle House in La Marque, TX, to save up for college. One of her customers, an elderly man who\u2019d recently undergone a surgery, was finding it difficult to cut up his ham. The man told Williams that his hands weren\u2019t \u2018working too good\u2019. He was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56674","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\/56674","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=56674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}