{"id":56,"date":"2014-03-20T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-04-04T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T10:48:56","slug":"2014-honoree-sean-sieleni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/2014\/03\/20\/2014-honoree-sean-sieleni\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Honoree: Sean Sieleni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Sieleni<\/strong> is 13 years old and a Special Olympics athlete from Minnesota.\u00a0 Sean became an athlete with Special Olympics when he was 8 years old.\u00a0 He has done his own fundraising for the Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge and has even taken the icy-water plunge for the last two years.\u00a0 He has made tie blankets for a senior citizens care center with his \u201cPeer and Leadership Society\u201d (P.A.L.S.) and delivered them to the care center for Christmas.\u00a0 He participates in \u201cSpread the Word\u201d to end the use of the R-word in our schools by holding banner signing events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In November of 2013, he and 12 other students performed in the Special Olympics play, “It’s Our School, Too,\u201d in front of 4000 educators and school administrators for the National Association of Middle Level Educators. Performed for schools all over the district, this play teaches about the importance of inclusion, acceptance of those with intellectual disabilities and the effects of the use of the R-word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Sean Sieleni is 13 years old and a Special Olympics athlete from Minnesota.\u00a0 Sean became an athlete with Special Olympics when he was 8 years old.\u00a0 He has done his own fundraising for the Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge and has even taken the icy-water plunge for the last two years.\u00a0 He has made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[10,12,27,9,24,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ypierre.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}