{"id":4834,"date":"2017-01-02T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2016-12-22T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T13:37:50","slug":"florida-plumber-on-the-road-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/blog\/florida-plumber-on-the-road-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Plumber on the Road to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Barbour, the second generation owner of the family-owned and operated business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionmechanical.com\">Union Mechanical <\/a>in Ft. Myers, Florida, has won the grand prize of a 2016 Harley-Davidson<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Road King<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> motorcycle in the 2016 Summit Sweepstakes: Road to Freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-John-Barbour-at-Dealership.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4835 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-John-Barbour-at-Dealership-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"mansfield-pic-john-barbour-at-dealership\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-John-Barbour-at-Dealership-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-John-Barbour-at-Dealership-600x469.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-John-Barbour-at-Dealership-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-John-Barbour-at-Dealership.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nationwide sweepstakes, sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\">Mansfield Plumbing Products<\/a>, was open to thousands of licensed plumbers and contractors purchasing Summit toilets between May 1 and September 30, 2016. Barbour, who took his wife Libby on the first ride of the motorcycle that was presented on December 6, 2016, still can&#8217;t believe he won the grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never win at drawings, so I was truly surprised,&#8221; says Barbour. &#8220;Everyone here was excited for me and maybe just a little jealous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barbour and his 20 employees purchase their plumbing needs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughessupply.com\/fortmyers\/\">Hughes Supply Ft. Myers<\/a>. Gio Giraldo, management trainee with Hughes Supply, remembers the winning sale that earned Barbour the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John came in looking for a top quality toilet,&#8221; says Giraldo. &#8220;His company had been purchasing Alto<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>toilets but this time he was set on a competitor&#8217;s toilet. Then I talked him into trying a Summit toilet. That one decision got him a great toilet &#8230; and the incredible Harley-Davidson motorcycle!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Barbour, the second generation owner of the family-owned and operated business, Union Mechanical in Ft. Myers, Florida, has won the grand prize of a 2016 Harley-Davidson\u00ae Road King\u00ae motorcycle in the 2016 Summit Sweepstakes: Road to Freedom. The nationwide sweepstakes, sponsored by Mansfield Plumbing Products, was open to thousands of licensed plumbers and contractors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mansfield-plumbing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}