{"id":429520,"date":"2015-12-15T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=429520"},"modified":"2015-12-16T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:29:00","slug":"ben-wheeler-rallies-to-save-christmas-for-local-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=429520","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wheeler Rallies to Save Christmas for Local Small Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Gum-Creek-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-429521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Gum-Creek-2-200x113.jpg\" alt=\"Gum Creek 2\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-429521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Gum-Creek-2-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Gum-Creek-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Gum-Creek-2-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Gum-Creek-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>BEN WHEELER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gum Creek Mercantile on Highway 64 in Ben Wheeler suffered major damage to its store after storms hit early Sunday morning, but neighbors are rallying to the cause.  According to a news release from the Ben Wheeler community, Gum Creek moves into the downtown area across from Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Store Restaurant this week. The release says the move will be a great Christmas gift to owners Joey Stanger and Shaun and Laura Crook. Laura Crook says she never expected the support and that the help \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has been a bigger impact than can be expressed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Laura Crook said.  This Thursday is moving day.  Several volunteers will help pack up and unpack Gum Creek for a Christmas Grand Opening at 4 p.m. Friday.  Laura Crook is inviting everyone to the celebration Friday evening and all day Saturday. She promises &#8220;hot cider, warm hugs and plenty of cheer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEN WHEELER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gum Creek Mercantile on Highway 64 in Ben Wheeler suffered major damage to its store after storms hit early Sunday morning, but neighbors are rallying to the cause. According to a news release from the Ben Wheeler community, Gum Creek moves into the downtown area across from Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Store Restaurant this week. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=429520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Wheeler Rallies to Save Christmas for Local Small Business<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":429521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 07:00:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429522,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429520\/revisions\/429522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/429521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}