{"id":8627,"date":"2014-01-22T23:36:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2014-01-22T23:36:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T04:36:31","slug":"elementary-teacher-raises-money-to-buy-entire-school-seahawks-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/22\/elementary-teacher-raises-money-to-buy-entire-school-seahawks-jerseys\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary teacher raises money to buy entire school Seahawks jerseys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A teacher in Seattle recently raised over $20,000 so he could purchase a Seattle Seahawks jersey for every student at his elementary school.<\/p>\n

Kevin Zelko is a teacher at Kimball Elementary in Seattle and thanks to his fundraising campaign every student at his school will receive a Seahawks jersey.<\/p>\n

Zelko works as a beer vendor at Seahawks games and came up with the idea during the teams win over New Orleans. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to an interview from\u00a0<\/span>For the Win<\/a>, Zelko had a good day and decided to set the excess money aside so he could purchase jerseys for a handful of students. From there friends began to chip in funds and eventually a GoFundMe was set up.<\/p>\n

Zelko summed the plan up and stated the importance of everyone being involved:<\/p>\n

The ability to keep everybody included in something that the entire city is talking about is really powerful. The smiles on their faces when they get a Seahawks jersey will be very impressive and many of the kids will remember this for the rest of their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In total Zelko purchased 447 jersies for the price of $24,906. Currently he’s raised just over $20,000 and there is still plenty of time before the Super Bowl to help him avoid seeing red if the Seahawks fail to win the Super Bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any excess donations will go to tutoring programs according to Zelko.<\/p>\n

Now all we need is a few people to comment about all the kids who will be wearing Richard Sherman jerseys. And yes this story started a week ago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A teacher in Seattle recently raised over $20,000 so he could purchase a Seattle Seahawks jersey for every student at his elementary school. Kevin Zelko is a teacher at Kimball Elementary in Seattle and thanks to his fundraising campaign every student at his school will receive a Seahawks jersey. Zelko works as a beer vendor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}