{"id":29205,"date":"2022-04-25T05:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=29205"},"modified":"2022-04-25T04:51:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:51:22","slug":"a-mountain-climber-a-valedictorian-and-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/04\/a-mountain-climber-a-valedictorian-and-pokemon-go\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mountain Climber, A Valedictorian, And Pok\u00e9mon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. A 57-year-old in Scotland named Paul Ellis was partially paralyzed after a fall 30 years ago, and had to have the lower part of both legs amputated in 2008. But he&#8217;s not letting it hold him back, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/21\/double-amputee-scales-uks-tallest-mountain-by-crawling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just climbed the U.K.&#8217;s tallest MOUNTAIN on his hands and knees<\/a>. He did it to raise money for a charity that helps kids who&#8217;ve lost limbs.<\/p>\n<p>2. A woman from Illinois named Tracey Meares had the highest grades in her class when she graduated high school in 1984, but wasn&#8217;t named valedictorian because she&#8217;s Black. She was declared a &#8220;top student&#8221; instead, alongside a white kid. But the school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/apr\/20\/high-school-valedictorian-tracey-meares-illinois-snub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally reversed that decision 38 years later, and made her valedictorian<\/a>. By the way, she&#8217;s now an author and law professor at Yale.<\/p>\n<p>3. Remember when everyone was obsessed with &#8220;Pok\u00e9mon Go&#8221;? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/News\/Latest-news-from-LSE\/2022\/d-Apr-22\/Location-based-mobile-games-like-Pok%C3%A9mon-Go-may-help-alleviate-depression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new study found it really helped people with depression<\/a>. Location-based games that make you walk around force people to exercise, socialize, and spend more time outdoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good News.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":27489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 13:20:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/04\/a-mountain-climber-a-valedictorian-and-pokemon-go\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29206,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205\/revisions\/29206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}