{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Up Your Average","title":"100: He Wrote Every Student a Birthday Letter Every Year Since 1984","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2141,"description":"Dan Stroup's handwritten birthday letters have followed his students from eighth grade into their fifties, and some of them have kept every one.\nDan spent 41 years at Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis, most of them teaching eighth grade Bible. When CBS News sent Steve Hartman to Indianapolis in 2013, the count stood at 2,800 birthdays and the writing ran up to three hours a night. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve call him living proof that you can change someone's world ten minutes at a time.\n\nThis episode covers:\nHow Dan keeps every letter from reading like a form letter\nWho kept him in stamps for thirty years\nWhether a text or an email can do what paper does\nWhen a stranger told Keith his late mother had changed her world\nWhat Dan tells young teachers who never hear how it turned out\nDoug ends with a challenge: look up the address of a teacher who changed you and write the letter today.\nšŸ‘‰ Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KmuiimG1JFbZUHe-bhnPBJ0y4SJ0wy-v--_HuuSvNXc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NjJh/ODcyYjJiNzU5NjIz/Y2RkNWRhYjdlYjA5/ZTIyNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}