{"id":24739,"date":"2023-01-29T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/29\/girl-nine-inspires-letters-to-heaven-postbox\/"},"modified":"2023-01-29T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:11:44","slug":"girl-nine-inspires-letters-to-heaven-postbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=24739","title":{"rendered":"Girl, nine, inspires &#8216;letters to heaven&#8217; postbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A postbox has been installed at a crematorium so people can send letters to loved ones they have lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Nine-year-old Matilda came up with the idea after telling her mum she wanted to write to her grandparents who had passed away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The postbox, which has been painted white and gold, was donated by the Royal Mail and installed at Gedling Crematorium in Nottinghamshire where Matilda&#8217;s mum, Leanne, works as a memorial advisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalist: Alex Thorp<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Follow BBC East Midlands on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbceastmids\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcemt\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, or on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbceastmidlands\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">. Send your story ideas to <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/mailto:eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64405010?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A postbox has been installed at a crematorium so people can send letters to loved ones they have lost. Nine-year-old Matilda came up with the idea after telling her &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}