{"id":218,"date":"2019-09-09T22:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/?p=218"},"modified":"2019-09-09T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:53:40","slug":"hope-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/hope-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN and other news outlets have been running this story about a young kid in Florida who is so smitten with the University of Tennessee that he even created a homemade tee-shirt (i.e., the University&#8217;s initials hand drawn on a sheet of paper and pinned to his orange shirt). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, as will always happen, he got bullied by poorly raised or simply misguided classmates. When UT heard about it, they quickly send the kid a thank you note with a pile of UT swag. But they took it a step further &#8211; they made an ACTUAL tee-shirt out of his design and are selling them online. The proceeds go to anti-bullying programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It says a lot about the way we hope the world works. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/07\/us\/bullied-student-university-of-tennessee-shirt-trnd\/index.html\">Alaa Elassar, CNN, September 9, 2019<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN and other news outlets have been running this story about a young kid in Florida who is so smitten with the University of Tennessee that he even created a homemade tee-shirt (i.e., the University&#8217;s initials hand drawn on a sheet of paper and pinned to his orange shirt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-opinions","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}