{"id":1019079,"date":"2022-03-12T02:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/12\/watch-briefcase-of-family-memories-accidentally-donated-to-thrift-store\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T02:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:07:51","slug":"watch-briefcase-of-family-memories-accidentally-donated-to-thrift-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/12\/watch-briefcase-of-family-memories-accidentally-donated-to-thrift-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Briefcase of family memories accidentally donated to thrift store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Briefcase-of-family-memories-accidentally-donated-to-thrift-store.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2xKOu-A2cSU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arvada thrift store tracks down donator after finding suitcase of family heirlooms\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2xKOu-A2cSU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 11 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Employees at a Colorado thrift store tracked down a man who mistakenly donated a briefcase that turned out to be filled with 80 years of memories.<\/p>\n<p>Josef Garrett, an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, said he inherited a family estate and while going through items he decided to donate what he assumed was a typewriter in a large briefcase.\n<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the Arc Thrift Stores location in Arvada opened the case and discovered it actually contained family letters and photos dating back 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>The store was able to contact Garrett to tell him of the error.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett said the items include a letter his grandmother wrote to her parents just before the birth of his father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading some of these letters, I started thinking about, like, &#8216;Oh, this is why this is happening,'&#8221; Garrett told KMGH-TV. &#8220;This is how I cam to be who I am today because of the action of my grandparents and my parents. It&#8217;s really kind of cool to be able to think about that when it all could have been lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11 (UPI) &#8212; Employees at a Colorado thrift store tracked down a man who mistakenly donated a briefcase that turned out to be filled with 80 years of memories. Josef Garrett, an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, said he inherited a family estate and while going through items he decided to donate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1019080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}