{"id":99598,"date":"2018-05-24T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/student-first-in-her-family-with-high-school-diploma\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T01:35:23","slug":"student-first-in-her-family-with-high-school-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/student-first-in-her-family-with-high-school-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Student first in her family with high school diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b7eb18ec-59bd-44e6-ad5e-418828b8c3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b7eb18ec-59bd-44e6-ad5e-418828b8c3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b7eb18ec-59bd-44e6-ad5e-418828b8c3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b7eb18ec-59bd-44e6-ad5e-418828b8c3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Some graduates and staff from Durango Adult Education\u2019s class in Cortez. Left to right: Max Harrison, Ann Marie Ward, site manager Al Huckins, Christina Adams, teacher Colleen Brennan, Mike Ramirez and teacher Gretchen Allen.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Some graduates and staff from Durango Adult Education\u2019s class in Cortez. Left to right: Max Harrison, Ann Marie Ward, site manager Al Huckins, Christina Adams, teacher Colleen Brennan, Mike Ramirez and teacher Gretchen Allen.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Durango Adult Education Center will hold its graduation on Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Durango Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cortez site manager Al Huckins, one of the Cortez graduates will be the first person in her family to a high school diploma.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Adams is married to William Adams and a mother of four: Matthew Hendricks, 7; Annabelle Hendricks, 4; Laycie Adams, 2; and James Adams, 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the whole reason I did the GED was to show my kids that if I can do it, you can do it,\u201d Adams said. \u201cFollow in my footsteps, not past, family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams wants to start a career in diesel mechanics. She is also considering furthering her education and is very grateful to the teachers at the Durango Adult Education Center in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If I can do it, you can do it,\u2019 mother of four says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,155,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-99598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99598"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=99598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}