{"id":675,"date":"2009-10-30T06:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=675"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:09:12","slug":"one-grateful-soccer-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2009\/10\/30\/one-grateful-soccer-player\/","title":{"rendered":"One Grateful Soccer Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-676\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-676\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2009\/10\/tylerpenn.jpg\" alt=\"tylerpenn\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Penn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KSC freshman Tyler Penn was born three months premature, and with cerebral palsy, but he&#8217;s sure never let that slow him down. He believes he can do anything he sets his mind to, and playing soccer is one of those things. Lately, he&#8217;s been experiencing a dream come true \u2013 he made the U.S. Paralympic soccer team. For the past two weeks, he&#8217;s been in Amsterdam playing in the World Paralympic Games. Here&#8217;s a report on how the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/News\/Paralympics\/2009\/10\/US-Paralylmpic-Team-Defeats-Japan.aspx\"> team finished their overseas trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s here at KSC, he&#8217;s always up for a game, and frequently knocks on doors in his dorm, looking for people to go out and play. Though he&#8217;s proud to be representing his country at the World Games, he&#8217;s happy to be playing anywhere. &#8220;I consider myself lucky every time I step on the soccer field,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/newsevents\/default.cfm?Type=NewsDetail&amp;News_ID=2226\">More information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KSC freshman Tyler Penn was born three months premature, and with cerebral palsy, but he&#8217;s sure never let that slow him down. He believes he can do anything he sets his mind to, and playing soccer is one of those things. Lately, he&#8217;s been experiencing a dream come true \u2013 he made the U.S. Paralympic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2009\/10\/30\/one-grateful-soccer-player\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Grateful Soccer Player<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}