{"id":614,"date":"2015-11-04T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2015-11-04T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:16:43","slug":"student-overcomes-adversity-to-return-to-his-favorite-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Student Overcomes Adversity to Return to His Favorite Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marquis<\/a>\"Marquis<\/a><\/p>\n

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Adversity affects people from all walks of life and does not discriminate.\u00a0 How you respond to it determines whether you will be triumphant or not.\u00a0 This brings us to the story of Marquis Saffold a 13 year old student at West Park Academy of Fine Arts & Technology in Chicago, IL.\u00a0 Marquis and his family reside on the West Side of the city. \u00a0Growing up in a major city has its challenges so Marquis knows that he has to be on his P\u2019s and Q\u2019s in order to meet his goals. \u00a0He does his best to try to stay on top of his school work and home responsibilities and like every other child he also wants to have fun.\u00a0 On April 25th<\/sup> 2014, Marquis, his little brother and some friends decided to spend part of their day playing basketball. However, that day would not be a regular day. While playing basketball they heard what appeared to be a gunshot that some thought was a fire cracker, and as a precautionary measure Marquis put his little brother behind him. Again the sound repeated and Marquis knew it was a gunshot so he sprang into action trying to get his brother out of harm\u2019s way but he himself was shot in the leg. A flood of thoughts ran through Marquis\u2019s mind but at the center of them were keeping his brother safe. Thankfully they managed to make it to the house of a community member who called the police and the ambulance.\u00a0 Relieved that his brother was safe Marquis\u2019s attention shifted to himself.\u00a0 Being an avid sports lover Marquis wanted to know if he would be able to participate in many of the sports that he loved mainly football.\u00a0 He was assured that he would be able continue playing sports but that football would probably be a challenge for him due to the strenuous requirements of the sport.\u00a0\u00a0 He was a little disappointed but not deterred from continuing to pursue his love of the sport.\u00a0 Marquis\u2019s rehab took two months due to much of it being delivered by his family and himself but he was able to return to school and get back on track to finish the 2014-2015 school year.\u00a0 He is thankful to those who supported him through his ordeal specifically his family and his homeroom teacher Mr. Peter Gyorffy.\u00a0 Marquis learned a few lessons that he thinks will be with him throughout life. He learned to be observant of his surroundings and to never give up on your goals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Adversity affects people from all walks of life and does not discriminate.\u00a0 How you respond to it determines whether you will be triumphant or not.\u00a0 This brings us to the story of Marquis Saffold a 13 year old student at West Park Academy of Fine Arts & Technology in Chicago, IL.\u00a0 Marquis and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucanturnitaround.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}