{"id":31505,"date":"2014-06-30T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=31505"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:34:49","slug":"courtney-boyd-wright-states-own-blind-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/06\/30\/courtney-boyd-wright-states-own-blind-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Boyd: Wright State\u2019s own \u2018Blind Side\u2019 story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She said she hears it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople say, \u2018Your life is like a movie.\u2019 They compare it to The Blind Side,\u201d said Courtney Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>The reference is to the 2009 movie about Michael Oher, the massive offensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans who was born to troubled parents, finally was adopted and then blossomed into a great college football player and first-round NFL draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-1 senior guard for the Wright State women\u2019s basketball team, Courtney might play a different sport and give away three inches and nearly 200 pounds to Oher, but her story is not eclipsed by his in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/news\/sports\/college-basketball\/courtney-boyd-wsus-own-blind-side-story\/ngTyd\/?ecmp=social_20140628_26913816#28206986.3637721.735414\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt She said she hears it all the time. \u201cPeople say, \u2018Your life is like a movie.\u2019 They compare it to The Blind Side,\u201d said Courtney Boyd. The reference is to the 2009 movie about Michael Oher, the massive offensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/06\/30\/courtney-boyd-wright-states-own-blind-side-story\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505","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=31505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31507,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions\/31507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}