{"id":76045,"date":"2017-11-14T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/money-falls-from-the-sky-surprises-mancos-man\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:51:22","slug":"money-falls-from-the-sky-surprises-mancos-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/money-falls-from-the-sky-surprises-mancos-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Money falls from the sky, surprises Mancos man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6170f09c-5762-4048-b3dd-3e79ce478cc7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1984\" height=\"1638\" alt=\"A bouquet of balloons with a $20 bill that traveled from California to Mancos overnight this weekend.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A bouquet of balloons with a $20 bill that traveled from California to Mancos overnight this weekend.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jeph Blaine\/Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Mancos resident got a surprise message from California on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Jeph Blaine, co-owner of Absolute Bakery in Mancos, found a balloon bouquet stuck to a fence near his family\u2019s property on County Road 39. Thinking it was trash, he stopped and picked it up. He said he thought it would be \u201ccute and funny\u201d to give the balloons to his wife, Tiffany, but when he did, she found a $20 bill tied to the bouquet, along with a note that asked the finder to text a phone number to let the balloons\u2019 sender know how far they had traveled.<\/p>\n<p>The number connected him with a woman in California, who had released the balloons the night before at a birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>Blaine said the balloons were a welcome surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a special and rare find,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought I was just being a good citizen, picking up trash, and then I find this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the location given in the note, the balloons had traveled more than 700 miles between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloons travel more than 700 miles with friendly note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76045"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}