{"id":12002,"date":"2016-08-26T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/?p=12002"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:42:21","slug":"who-has-helped-you-achieve-where-you-are-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/who-has-helped-you-achieve-where-you-are-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who has helped you achieve where you are today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight new graduates across Point Park University&#8217;s four schools shared their thoughts about who has helped them along their journey to earning a master\u2019s degree from Point Park. <strong>Below is the response from a friend of Soul Pitt, Mr. Lorenzo Boone:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12003\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lorenzoboone_685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12003\" class=\"wp-image-12003\" src=\"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lorenzoboone_685.jpg\" alt=\"lorenzoboone_685\" width=\"571\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lorenzoboone_685.jpg 685w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lorenzoboone_685-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from http:\/\/www.pointpark.edu<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Lorenzo Boone, M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen and Stage<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To begin, I have to acknowledge my 85-year-old mother, who I am fortunate to still have with me. It is her lost opportunities and dreams that I carry on my shoulders daily. Through her life, I recognize that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Professors Nelson Chipman and Elise D&#8217;Haene also played a significant role in my development, and gave me incentive to keep driving towards my goals. They helped me believe that my style of storytelling and the voice that accompanies it needs to be told. They convinced me that even though it may not be traditional or mainstream, it has a place and it has merit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOUL PITT CONGRATULATES LORENZO ON HIS ACCOMPLISHMENT!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight new graduates across Point Park University&#8217;s four schools shared their thoughts about who has helped them along their journey to earning a master\u2019s degree from Point Park. Below is the response from a friend of Soul Pitt, Mr. Lorenzo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/who-has-helped-you-achieve-where-you-are-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:21:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12004,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions\/12004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}