{"id":5773,"date":"2013-06-11T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:19:51","slug":"inauguration-to-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration to Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5772\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5772\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5772\" title=\"George Weiss, Founder, Say Yes to Education, Inc.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sayyes-georgeweiss.jpg\" alt=\"George Weiss, Founder, Say Yes to Education, Inc.\" width=\"436\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sayyes-georgeweiss.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sayyes-georgeweiss-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Weiss,\u00a0Founder, Say Yes to Education, Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Say Yes to Education (Syracuse) celebrated a five-year anniversary yesterday\u00a0with a program at John T. Roberts School. The event featured speeches by Say Yes Founder George Weiss, educators, politicians, and a few\u00a0initial graduates. Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor cited the Say Yes program as a metaphor for Syracuse as a &#8220;city of opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5774\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5774\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5774\" title=\"Current and former Syracuse City School Superindendent Sharon Contreras and Daniel Lowengard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sayyes-contrer-lowen.jpg\" alt=\"Current and former Syracuse City School Superindendent Sharon Contreras and Daniel Lowengard speak about the success of Say Yes.\" width=\"436\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sayyes-contrer-lowen.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sayyes-contrer-lowen-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current and former Syracuse City School Superintendents Sharon Contreras and Daniel Lowengard speak about the success of Say Yes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Below is an inspiring speech by Amber Jackson, an\u00a0inaugural Say Yes Scholar and 2013 graduate of Hobart William Smith Colleges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F96413178&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Say Yes to Education (Syracuse) celebrated a five-year anniversary yesterday\u00a0with a program at John T. Roberts School. The event featured speeches by Say Yes Founder George Weiss, educators, politicians, and a few\u00a0initial graduates. Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor cited the Say Yes program as a metaphor for Syracuse as a &#8220;city of opportunity.&#8221; Below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[2524,2918,2919,26,2917,2920,1263,820,566,1674,113,1274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24086,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/24086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}