{"id":58113,"date":"2019-05-08T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58113"},"modified":"2019-05-08T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:30:18","slug":"mom-skips-her-own-graduation-to-attend-sons-college-surprises-her-with-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/05\/08\/mom-skips-her-own-graduation-to-attend-sons-college-surprises-her-with-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom skips her own graduation to attend son&#8217;s, college surprises her with degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a heartwarming video that is going viral these days, a surprised mom can be seen accepting her own college degree at her son&#8217;s graduation ceremony!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharonda Wilson&#8217;s son Stephan was graduating from Central Michigan University on the same day as her own commencement ceremony at Ferris State University. The dedicated mom decided to skip her graduation to attend her son&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When CMU President Dr. Robert Davies heard about Sharonda\u2019s act of devotion, however, he contacted her university and asked to confer her degree on behalf of FSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMU\u2019s social media accounts later posted a video of the moment that Sharonda and Stephan got to share their graduation \u2013 and their reactions were priceless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/watch-college-give-degree-to-mom-skipping-her-commencement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/watch-college-give-degree-to-mom-skipping-her-commencement\/ (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/watch-college-give-degree-to-mom-skipping-her-commencement\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a heartwarming video that is going viral these days, a surprised mom can be seen accepting her own college degree at her son&#8217;s graduation ceremony! Sharonda Wilson&#8217;s son Stephan was graduating from Central Michigan University on the same day as her own commencement ceremony at Ferris State University. The dedicated mom decided to skip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}