{"id":29747,"date":"2014-04-21T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=29747"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:09:13","slug":"a-game-and-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/21\/a-game-and-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"A game and a plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/21\/a-game-and-a-plan\/courtney-boyd\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29748\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/04\/courtney-boyd-508x319.jpg\" alt=\"Courtney Boyd\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Wright State women\u2019s basketball player Courtney Boyd tells her story of growing up and making the best of her situation as a child and now young adult in <em>NCAA Champion Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>NCAA author Amy Wimmer Schwarb and photographer Amanda Goehlert do an excellent job examining Courtney\u2019s life and what brought her to Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>The opening tease says it all: \u201cCourtney Boyd didn\u2019t want to follow her peers into the life of drugs and despair that consumed her hometown. To move on, she would need a new family, a new home, a new name\u2014and the belief that an education could change her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.proemags.com\/publication\/f8c7da3c#\/f8c7da3c\/56\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State women\u2019s basketball player Courtney Boyd tells her story of growing up and making the best of her situation as a child and now young adult in NCAA Champion Magazine. NCAA author Amy Wimmer Schwarb and photographer Amanda Goehlert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/21\/a-game-and-a-plan\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":29748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[744,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-human-services","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29752,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions\/29752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}