{"id":1338,"date":"2013-05-27T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:59:29","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/27\/a-modern-home-scholar-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Blake Griffin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers\/blake-griffin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blake-griffin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blake-griffin-500x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home schooled until high school,\u00a0Blake Griffin grew up playing basketball with his older brother Taylor and followed him to the\u00a0University of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oklahoma<\/span><\/span>, where the brothers led the Sooners to the Elite Eight of the 2009 Men\u2019s NCAA Basketball Tournament.\u00a0Blake\u00a0was selected no. 1 overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers, while Taylor was selected 48th overall by the Phoenix Suns. Blake Griffin is often described as \u201ca man among boys\u201d \u00a0for his massive size and awesome athleticism. His dunks are already<a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/533577-los-angeles-clippers-blake-griffin-and-the-top-six-doctors-of-dunk\">\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">legendary<\/span>.\u00a0Griffin, who\u2019s\u00a0mom is white and dad is black,\u00a0considers being biracial an asset, allowing him see the world from both sides of the racial divide and giving him a broader sense of perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Blake Griffin Home schooled until high school,\u00a0Blake Griffin grew up playing basketball with his older brother Taylor and followed him to the\u00a0University of\u00a0Oklahoma, where the brothers led the Sooners to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}