{"id":1261,"date":"2012-06-06T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2012-06-08T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T13:47:06","slug":"from-homeless-to-harvard-high-school-whiz-beats-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2012\/06\/from-homeless-to-harvard-high-school-whiz-beats-the-odds.html","title":{"rendered":"From Homeless to Harvard &#8211; Disadvantaged High Schooler Beats the Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Boone is both smart and charming. \u00a0If you see him now, you&#8217;d never realize that he&#8217;d been homeless through part of high school. \u00a0But against the odds&#8211;including having to sleep on the streets some nights&#8211;he has excelled at math and science, earning him a spot at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t cry at Graduation. \u00a0But then I realized that what&#8217;s everyone says before they start crying,&#8221; he said. \u00a0Watch his touching story below!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?height=310&#038;embedCode=JqZmN3NDpocQOKLvJSdMmYhqzwb76f1h&#038;video_pcode=hvZXE6LAucDf6RdQ6h18j_W_oNxg&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=JqZmN3NDpocQOKLvJSdMmYhqzwb76f1h&#038;width=560\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1320\" style=\"width: 102px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/files\/2012\/06\/homeless_to_harvard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/210\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-08-at-9.33.45-AM.png\" alt=\"David Boone goes from homeless to Harvard\" title=\"Homeless_to_harvard\" width=\"102\" height=\"80\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Boone excels against the odds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Boone is both smart and charming. \u00a0If you see him now, you&#8217;d never realize that he&#8217;d been homeless through part of high school. \u00a0But against the odds&#8211;including having to sleep on the streets some nights&#8211;he has excelled at math and science, earning him a spot at Harvard. &#8220;I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t cry at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,135],"tags":[286,288,69,284,287],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes","category-overcoming-circumstances","tag-harvard","tag-high-school","tag-homeless","tag-inspiring","tag-overcoming-the-odds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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