{"id":351,"date":"2017-12-19T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/southwest-florida\/?p=351"},"modified":"2022-05-26T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T06:43:20","slug":"lauren-shares-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/southwest-florida\/lauren-shares-story\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUREN SHARES HER STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"351\" class=\"elementor elementor-351\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14db7d5b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14db7d5b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4cad829\" data-id=\"4cad829\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41d4d411 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41d4d411\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>LAUREN SHARES HER BROTHER, THE FLASH, WITH US<\/h5>\n<p>Recently, Lauren Harkins sat down with&nbsp; <a class=\"text-red\" href=\"http:\/\/southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com\/\">Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers<\/a> to share her story and her brother with us.<\/p>\n<p>To watch the video in which Lauren lovingly talks about her brother, please <a class=\"text-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=2&amp;v=EG96NXMRcSI\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Lauren gave up her volunteer position of <a class=\"text-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walklikemadd.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&amp;eventID=846\">Walk Like MADD &amp; 5K <\/a>Chair to join the staff team as a Program Specialist.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUREN SHARES HER BROTHER, THE FLASH, WITH US Recently, Lauren Harkins sat down with&nbsp; Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers to share her story and her brother with us. 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In November, Lauren gave up her volunteer position of Walk Like MADD &amp; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/southwest-florida\/lauren-shares-story\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-victim-stories","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LAUREN SHARES HER STORY - Affiliate Southwest Florida<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/southwest-florida\/lauren-shares-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LAUREN SHARES HER STORY - Affiliate Southwest Florida\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAUREN SHARES HER BROTHER, THE FLASH, WITH US Recently, Lauren Harkins sat down with&nbsp; Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers to share her story and her brother with us. 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