{"id":221,"date":"2019-03-25T03:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2019-03-25T03:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:19:31","slug":"homeless-boy-became-chess-champion-of-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/homeless-boy-became-chess-champion-of-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Boy Became Chess Champion of New York State!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/Kristof\">www.nytimes.com\/Kristof<\/a> and see Nicholas Kristof\u2019s piece last Friday, March 22, 2019.&nbsp; After Nick had reported the story of an 8-year-old homeless boy who had just become the chess champion of his age group in New York State, the response of his readers exemplified our true American spirit (esp. compassion &amp; generosity), so well known around the world.&nbsp; Within a week, the boy and family have a home and some financial security.&nbsp; In response to the overwhelming generosity of Kristof\u2019s readers, who raised over $200,000 for them, the family has decided to not use any of the money on themselves, but, instead, on other African immigrants who need assistance. &nbsp;&nbsp;This quality is what has made our nation great!&nbsp; Help me give the Adewumi family a belated welcome.&nbsp; And Nick, thank you for bringing this story to us!&nbsp; I have been your fan for years.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albert Y. Leung, PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayslcorp.com\/blog\">www.ayslcorp.com\/blog<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please visit www.nytimes.com\/Kristof and see Nicholas Kristof\u2019s piece last Friday, March 22, 2019.&nbsp; After Nick had reported the story of an 8-year-old homeless boy who had just become the chess champion of his age group in New York State, the response of his readers exemplified our true American spirit (esp. compassion &amp; generosity), so well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/homeless-boy-became-chess-champion-of-new-york-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homeless Boy Became Chess Champion of New York State!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}