{"id":3636,"date":"2019-09-04T13:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:12:25","slug":"michelle-obama-encourages-students-to-reach-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/michelle-obama-encourages-students-to-reach-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama Encourages Students to Reach Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TwZ8o8jnQU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former First Lady Michelle Obama has released a special back-to-school message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The harder you work in your classes this year, the more opportunities you&#8217;ll have to go to college and get the education you need to be who you want to be and build the life you want to live,&#8221; Obama tells students in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8TwZ8o8jnQU\">video message<\/a> released by Better Make Room. &#8220;And that matters not just for your future, but for the future of our country and our world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obama ends the video by encouraging students to visit the Better Make Room website and share an &#8220;I will&#8221; statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement should &#8220;tell the world exactly what you&#8217;re going to do to reach higher this year,&#8221; Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each one of you has something to offer \u2014 something that only you can bring to this world,\u201d she tells students. &#8220;And I can\u2019t wait to see what you achieve in the months and years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8TwZ8o8jnQU\">full video<\/a> and learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettermakeroom.org\/\">Better Make Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/learn-more-about-student-activism-and-the-admission-process\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former First Lady Michelle Obama has released a special back-to-school message. &#8220;The harder you work in your classes this year, the more opportunities you&#8217;ll have to go to college and get the education you need to be who you want to be and build the life you want to live,&#8221; Obama tells students in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/michelle-obama-encourages-students-to-reach-higher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michelle Obama Encourages Students to Reach Higher<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[230,229,122],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","category-college-readiness","tag-better-make-room","tag-michelle-obama","tag-reach-higher"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-WE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}