{"id":3588,"date":"2016-05-11T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/11\/this-moms-graduation-dream-is-33-years-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T20:03:14","slug":"this-moms-graduation-dream-is-33-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/11\/this-moms-graduation-dream-is-33-years-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"This mom's graduation dream is 33 years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bonnie Johnson<\/a> takes the term “non-traditional college student” to a whole new level.<\/p>\n

Like many Americans, Johnson had a dream of obtaining a college degree. But unlike so many of the Kennesaw State University<\/a> graduates crossing the stage this morning, Johnson’s dream wasn’t achieved in a linear, four-year-long fashion.<\/p>\n

In fact, realizing her goal took more than three decades. Johnson began pursuing a degree in business administration in 1983. Before she was able to graduate, however, life threw her more than a couple curveballs.<\/p>\n

With two premature children born with special needs, Johnson found her academic interests took a backseat to caring for her children Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Graduation<\/a>, Mom<\/a>, Inspiration<\/a>, Special Needs<\/a>, and Lifestyle<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bonnie Johnson takes the term “non-traditional college student” to a whole new level. Like many Americans, Johnson had a dream of obtaining a college degree. But unlike so many of the Kennesaw State University graduates crossing the stage this morning, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2344,2798,788,2797,2799],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-graduation","tag-inspiration","tag-lifestyle","tag-mom","tag-special-needs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}