{"id":1344,"date":"2013-06-10T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:59:58","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/10\/a-modern-home-scholar-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Akiane Kramarik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers\/akiane450x280-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"akiane450x280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/akiane450x2801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akiane Kramarik is considered to be the youngest art and poetry prodigy in history, but chances are you\u2019ve never heard of her. Kramarik taught herself to draw\u00a0at age\u00a0four, began painting at age six, and started\u00a0writing poetry when she was seven. She also speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Kramerik<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0God taught her how to paint and write, and has been appearing and speaking to her in dreams and visions since she was three. Prior to Kramarik\u2019s encounter with God her family had no serious religious commitments.\u00a0Her mom,\u00a0a Lithuanian immigrant, was an atheist and\u00a0her American father was\u00a0a lapsed Catholic.\u00a0They, along with\u00a0Kramerik\u2019s four brothers,\u00a0are now devout Christians as a result of Kramarik\u2019s influence.\u00a0Kramarik\u2019s first painting sold for $10,000 and\u00a0she\u00a0has since sold paintings for as much as $1,ooo,ooo, making her one of the wealthiest child art prodigies in the world and one of the richest teens in the United States.<\/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 Akiane Kramarik Akiane Kramarik is considered to be the youngest art and poetry prodigy in history, but chances are you\u2019ve never heard of her. Kramarik taught herself to draw\u00a0at age\u00a0four, began painting [&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-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","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=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}