{"id":27809,"date":"2011-08-16T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_former_high_school_dropout_is_now_excelling_at_west_virginia_university\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:01:23","slug":"a_former_high_school_dropout_is_now_excelling_at_west_virginia_university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27809","title":{"rendered":"A Former High School dropout is now excelling at West Virginia University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In high school, he didn&#8217;t do his class assignments or study for tests. Instead, he was focused on making money in the streets and hanging out with friends&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[As a result of some dramatic events] Irvin has&#8230; [been [en]during an improbable, nomadic journey that&#8217;s transformed him from a troubled teen into an undersized star defensive end for West Virginia and major college football&#8217;s top returning pass rusher entering the season<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he finished second in the Football Bowl Subdivision with 14 sacks, despite not starting and primarily playing on third downs \u201d\u201d about eight to 10 snaps per game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/collegefootball\/story\/Former-high-school-dropout-Bruce-Irvin-now-excelling-at-West-Virginia-081011\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In high school, he didn&#8217;t do his class assignments or study for tests. Instead, he was focused on making money in the streets and hanging out with friends&#8230;. [As a result of some dramatic events] Irvin has&#8230; [been [en]during an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27809\">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":[39,111,128,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-sports","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809","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=27809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}