{"id":137705,"date":"2025-06-11T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137705"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:37:11","slug":"a-heartwarming-story-for-wednesday-an-88-year-old-maine-grandmother-graduates-decades-after-being-barred-because-of-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137705","title":{"rendered":"(NBC) A Heartwarming story for Wednesday&#8211;An 88-year-old Maine grandmother graduates decades after being barred because of pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Herewith the NBC preview&#8211;&#8216;Joan Alexander was awarded a teaching degree by the University of Maine after being denied more than six decades prior. The 88-year-old says she was barred from student teaching, a requirement for her degree, because she was pregnant with her first child. Tom Llamas speaks with the recent graduate and has her story.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_pFBU8igms?si=CnIE9x5koafK7GPq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herewith the NBC preview&#8211;&#8216;Joan Alexander was awarded a teaching degree by the University of Maine after being denied more than six decades prior. The 88-year-old says she was barred from student teaching, a requirement for her degree, because she was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,111,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-education","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137714,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137705\/revisions\/137714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}