{"id":96,"date":"2017-05-13T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-05-13T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T04:22:13","slug":"rising-above-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/13\/rising-above-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Above It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI came upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/05\/13\/clear-creek-student-overcomes-death-homelessness-to-chart-own-path-win-national-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Denver Post article<\/a>\u00a0about Gavin Arneson a senior at Clear Creek High School while browsing on Facebook this morning. Despite a difficult and chaotic childhood, not to mention the recent loss of his father, Gavin has conquered these multiple challenges with determination and resilience and the support of a caring community. \u00a0He graduates school valedictorian this spring, serves as\u00a0president of Clear Creek\u2019s student council and honor society, was awarded the National Honor Society\u2019s annual $20,000 scholarship (the only one in the country) and has received a four-year, full tuition scholarship to study nursing at New York University. \u00a0He is an impressive young man.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\" align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5HcUZXbhVgk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know Gavin or the community members that stepped up to help him succeed, but I wanted to share my appreciation of this story. \u00a0Thank you all for providing a wonderful example of how spirit, love, and compassion can make this world a better place. \u00a0Kudos to you all!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Charles-de-Lint.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Charles-de-Lint.jpg?resize=740%2C620\" alt=\"Quote by Charles de Lint pm sunflower background\" width=\"740\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came upon this Denver Post article\u00a0about Gavin Arneson a senior at Clear Creek High School while browsing on Facebook this morning. Despite a difficult and chaotic childhood, not to mention the recent loss of his father, Gavin has conquered these multiple challenges with determination and resilience and the support of a caring community. \u00a0He graduates school valedictorian this spring, serves as\u00a0president of Clear Creek\u2019s student council and honor society, was awarded the National Honor Society\u2019s annual $20,000 scholarship (the only one in the country) and has received a four-year, full tuition scholarship to study nursing at New York University.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[99,100,65,32,101,98,43,30,104,102,105,103],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finding-the-good","tag-clear-creek-high-school","tag-community","tag-compassion","tag-connection","tag-determination","tag-gavin-arneson","tag-humanity","tag-love","tag-national-honor-society","tag-resilience","tag-scholarship","tag-valedictorian"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}