{"id":707525,"date":"2010-04-02T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=42390"},"modified":"2010-04-02T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T13:22:32","slug":"from-homeless-to-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707525","title":{"rendered":"From Homeless to Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has baggage, but Lalita Booth&#8217;s is heavier than most.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Ashville, N.C., the rebellious teen says her problems all began when her parents divorced and she was sexually abused by a family acquaintance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That led to substance abuse, staying out all night long, and running away,&#8221; Booth said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>By then, she learned to really dream big and another door opened. Booth was accepted to one of the most elite and the oldest of the Ivy Leagues: Harvard University. The 29-year-old Booth is earning a Master&#8217;s degree in business and public policy\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/04\/01\/eveningnews\/main6355052.shtml\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has baggage, but Lalita Booth&#8217;s is heavier than most. Raised in Ashville, N.C., the rebellious teen says her problems all began when her parents divorced and she was sexually abused by a family acquaintance. &#8220;That led to substance abuse, staying out all night long, and running away,&#8221; Booth said\u2026 By then, she learned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Y3H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}