{"id":3033,"date":"2025-06-25T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:16:44","slug":"police-officer-surprises-young-boy-who-sells-lemonade-to-buy-a-pair-of-sneakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Surprises Young Boy Who Sells Lemonade To Buy A Pair Of Sneakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-149.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-149.png 526w, https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-149-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A police officer in Connecticut made a difference in the life of a young boy through an act of kindness that has gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/headlinehub.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21030\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy\u2019s grandmother, Wendelyn Narvaez, shared a post on Facebook where she wrote about her grandson who was selling lemonade when Officer Joel Perez approached him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer Joel Perez is a former military police officer and was recently hired by the Ansonia Police Department in March, according to a post on the Ansonia Police Department\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/headlinehub.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21031\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer was making small talk with the boy when he asked him what he would do with the money he made from the sales. Landen told the officer that he would spend the money he earned from the lemonade stand to buy a pair of blue-colored sneakers for school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/headlinehub.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21032\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perez left from there and then returned with a new pair of blue sneakers for the boy. A photograph of that moment was shared on Narvaez\u2019s Facebook account where she wrote, \u201cLanden was surprised and couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Narvaez wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansonia Police Chief Wayne Williams reacted to Perez\u2019s kindness after it went viral on social media and wrote an email, \u201cThese are the types of officers that we are all looking to hire,\u201d Williams wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A police officer in Connecticut made a difference in the life of a young boy through an act of kindness that has gone viral on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/?p=3033\" title=\"Police Officer Surprises Young Boy Who Sells Lemonade To Buy A Pair Of Sneakers\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time.amazingstory.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}