{"id":359,"date":"2008-01-30T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/30\/rising-above\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:00:16","slug":"rising-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/30\/rising-above\/","title":{"rendered":"rising above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/147-00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161481059732073138\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/148-00.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>okay, one last post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/victoryandruins\/\">seattle times&#8217; series<\/a> on the 2000 university of washington football team. the series ended on a positive note with an inspirational story about linebacker <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004152847_rbkelley300.html\">anthony kelly<\/a> who went to college to become a football star and against the odds&#8230;became a student.<\/p>\n<p>the idea of studying abroad captured kelly&#8217;s imagination and he won a scholarship to study in south africa. there, he worked with children and found a love for learning. as he said: &#8220;I had a chance to engage. To feel, touch and smell what I was reading in these books. That&#8217;s when I had the big idea of education as an engaged experience.&#8221; even as a number of his teammates were racking up long criminal records, kelly became a family man with big dreams for the children of south africa.<\/p>\n<p>kelly is now working toward his master&#8217;s degree in education; he is currently in south africa again, this time leading a group of about twenty students on their own study abroad experience. he has ambitious goals and the drive to achieve them.<\/p>\n<p>if you have a few minutes, it&#8217;s definitely worth the time to <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004152847_rbkelley300.html\">read the full version of his story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>okay, one last post about the seattle times&#8217; series on the 2000 university of washington football team. the series ended on a positive note with an inspirational story about linebacker anthony kelly who went to college to become a football star and against the odds&#8230;became a student. the idea of studying abroad captured kelly&#8217;s imagination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[31525],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}