{"id":8414,"date":"2014-02-24T20:27:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T01:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:10:22","slug":"dreaming-big-is-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=8414","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Big is Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"436\" height=\"386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8418\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" title=\"Rosie Perez\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sif-stock-rperez2.jpg\" alt=\"Rosie Perez, &lt;a href=\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sif-stock-rperez2.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sif-stock-rperez2-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all like a good story about overcoming odds and transforming misfortune into triumph. That&#8217;s the story Rosie Perez \u00a0talked about during an interview today (publicizing her book on NPR).\u00a0\u00a0Perez went from\u00a0Soul Train dancer to actor, to victim rights advocate and motivational speaker. She is pictured above during a visit to the Southwest Community Center, where she was a keynote speaker (2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all like a good story about overcoming odds and transforming misfortune into triumph. That&#8217;s the story Rosie Perez \u00a0talked about during an interview today (publicizing her book on NPR).\u00a0\u00a0Perez went from\u00a0Soul Train dancer to actor, to victim rights advocate and motivational speaker. She is pictured above during a visit to the Southwest Community Center, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[3463,51,5005,1082,1704,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414"}],"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=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23532,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/23532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}