{"id":36,"date":"2007-06-07T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T01:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-06-07T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T01:13:30","slug":"graduation-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday June 7 we will be downtown in Tokyo at the Foreign Correspondents Club for a Seniors and Senior Parents Banquet to celebrate our about-to-graduates.\u00c2\u00a0 The next day we will have commencement for the Christian Academy in Japan Class of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>We are very pleased that Ben has been showing lots of diligence and perseverance in his studies this year, while handling 3 seasons of sports: cross-country, basketball and soccer.\u00c2\u00a0 In the finale of the season, the Far East Soccer Tournament 2007, CAJ managed to put in a stellar performance, undefeated into the championship. Then in the final game, they fought to a 1-1 tie, and took the championship with a 4-2 PK shootout.\u00c2\u00a0 Congrats to Ben and the team.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is planning on going with us to Orlando, attending Valencia Community College to get residency and work on general ed subjects.\u00c2\u00a0 Later he should be able to attend state schools in Florida or elsewhere as the Lord leads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image37\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Ben's Graduation Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ben_portraits_070202_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday June 7 we will be downtown in Tokyo at the Foreign Correspondents Club for a Seniors and Senior Parents Banquet to celebrate our about-to-graduates.\u00c2\u00a0 The next day we will have commencement for the Christian Academy in Japan Class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-clarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}