{"id":108,"date":"2018-05-10T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/?p=108"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:47:44","slug":"denise-bowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/2018\/05\/10\/denise-bowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Bowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was 38 years old when I made the decision to go to college. I wanted to go from time to time, before I got busy being a wife and mom. I took the leap of faith and applied for financial aide, As a single mom, I was terrified of failure and the expense it would have for the family.i graduated with Honors with my associate&#8217;;s in May of 2017 and quickly jumped back into school at Old Dominion because of the amazing opportunities I feel are still ahead of me. I have never been as proud and humble as walking across that stage and showing my entire family that If you dream it, it&#8217;;s possible..and I worked so hard. I am a first generation college student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 38 years old when I made the decision to go to college. I wanted to go from time to time, before I got busy being a wife and mom. I took the leap of faith and applied for financial aide, As a single mom, I was terrified of failure and the expense it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/2018\/05\/10\/denise-bowman\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/firstgenvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}