{"id":133,"date":"2022-10-27T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/?p=133"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:07:10","slug":"speech-story-stuart-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/2022\/10\/27\/speech-story-stuart-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech story &#8211; Stuart Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSo, live. Live. Fight like hell.\u201d Those words were delivered by Stuart Scott last night in a very heartfelt speech of his courageous fight against cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night the sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, Stuart Scott, accepted the accepting the Jimmy v perseverance award. It is given to a deserving member of the sporting world who has overcome great obstacles through perseverance and determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott\u2019s successful career was forced to take a back seat when he was first diagnosed with appendiceal cancer in November of 2007. This has been a big part of Scott\u2019s life and he has found what he finds important in life \u201cEvery day I am reminded that our life&#8217;s journey is really about the people who touch us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott touched many people last night by his inspirational and emotional speech. It was made sure that the audience left with either a reminder or different perspective on life. It was reminded what is important in life and for Scott it is his two daughters. &nbsp;He says, \u201cI can&#8217;t ever give up because I can&#8217;t leave my daughters.\u201d Afterwards one of his daughters joins him on stage to give a big and heartfelt hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo, live. Live. Fight like hell.\u201d Those words were delivered by Stuart Scott last night in a very heartfelt speech of his courageous fight against cancer. Last night the sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, Stuart Scott, accepted the accepting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/2022\/10\/27\/speech-story-stuart-scott\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/lk0013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}