{"id":8469,"date":"2017-12-21T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2017-12-21T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:08:04","slug":"jeremy-poincenot-07-is-featured-on-cnns-great-big-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/jeremy-poincenot-07-is-featured-on-cnns-great-big-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Poincenot (&#8217;07) is featured on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Great Big Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating from San Dieguito High School Academy in 2007, Jeremy Poincenot suddenly became legally blind while at SDSU due to a rare visual disorder. He was only 19. By the time he was 20 he had become the World Blind Golf Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Now a motivational speaker, Jeremy&#8217;s story was featured on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatbigstory.com\/stories\/jcpenney-golfer-without-sight\">Great Big Story<\/a>.&#8221; This video tells us a little more about his amazing life. <em>Thanks to Mr. Rod Keillor for alerting us to it!<\/em> Here&#8217;s Jeremy&#8217;s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeremypoincenot.com\">\/www.jeremypoincenot.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How a Golfer Lost His Sight and Became a Champion\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X7qE9AlKPc4?feature=oembed\" 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>After graduating from San Dieguito High School Academy in 2007, Jeremy Poincenot suddenly became legally blind while at SDSU due to a rare visual disorder. He was only 19. By the time he was 20 he had become the World Blind Golf Champion. Now a motivational speaker, Jeremy&#8217;s story was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-go-mustangs","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}