{"id":4850,"date":"2010-05-24T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2010-05-24T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:33:00","slug":"struth-wedding-plans-in-the-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/05\/struth-wedding-plans-in-the-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Wedding Plans in the Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S_pyLj7UhAI\/AAAAAAAAKRs\/sbbNblwohH0\/s1600\/weddingcans+collection+resized-729941.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S_pyLj7UhAI\/AAAAAAAAKRs\/sbbNblwohH0\/s320\/weddingcans+collection+resized-729941.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474813839970436098\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a couple who walk the streets at night of their home-town Spokane in America&#8217;s Washington State to pay for their July 31 wedding, are well on target to reach their goal of raising $4000.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re not up to anything illegal: they spend several hours each night gathering discarded aluminium drink cans from streets, parks and rubbish bins around town, and sell these to a scrap dealer with the proceeds going into their &#8220;Wedding and Honeymoon Bank Account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calling themselves just Pete and Andrea we first mentioned them back in January when they told us of their bizarre scheme, and how at that stage they&#8217;d collected and sold 29,000 cans.<\/p>\n<p>This week they told us they&#8217;d now reached an amazing 344,000 themselves, plus with the help of friends, relatives, workmates and complete strangers who&#8217;ve heard their story&#8230; and now have just 56,000 more to collect in the final ten weeks before their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ve had a surprise boost to the wedding celebrations: a group of mates have taken it upon themselves to make and donate enough home-brew beer to slake the thirsts of all guests at the reception.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to let you know in July how it all went\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"visibility: hidden; display: inline;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a couple who walk the streets at night of their home-town Spokane in America&#8217;s Washington State to pay for their July 31 wedding, are well on target to reach their goal of raising $4000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}