{"id":6037,"date":"2010-06-14T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T02:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-meridian-high-school-graduates-way-to-go-class-of-2010\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:50:36","slug":"kent-meridian-high-school-graduates-way-to-go-class-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/kent-meridian-high-school-graduates-way-to-go-class-of-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent-Meridian High School graduates: Way to go, Class of 2010!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent-Meridian Class of 2010 capped a busy four years on the academic grindstone by graduating June 12 from the Kent ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 304 seniors had achieved their goal &#8211; and a diploma &#8211; this year.<\/p>\n<p>Giving the student address was Garren Moss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Class of 2010 is the kindest, most understanding and whole-hearted group I have ever worked with,&#8221; Moss said, noting that K-M&#8217;s ethnically diverse population and openness made him think that &#8220;Not even Martin Luther King was to the point of dreaming what we have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valedictorian Linda Camila Saucedo spoke to the difficulties, and the realization of a dream, as a student at K-M.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was alone in the middle, torn between two cultures,&#8221; said Saucedo, who immigrated to the U.S. from her native country of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;K-M became the family I needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent-Meridian Class of 2010 capped a busy four years on the academic grindstone by graduating June 12 from the Kent ShoWare Center.<br \/>\nA total of 304 seniors had achieved their goal &#8211; and a diploma &#8211; this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}