{"id":390,"date":"2013-07-06T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplechara.wordpress.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-07-06T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T20:11:15","slug":"opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, on July 4, 2003, I wrote an essay for a &#8220;patriotic essay&#8221; contest sponsored by Trinity Fest in Dallas. It was about why I loved America &#8211; basically, a few paragraphs considering all the opportunities I have been blessed to experience since my parents decided to move here to the U.S. many years ago. I&#8217;ve always been grateful for who I am and the things I&#8217;ve been blessed to do, but looking back over the past decade after reading the fabulous 10-year follow up article in the Dallas Morning News by Ms. Floyd, it almost baffles me at how far God has allowed my family and I to come. Truly, we&#8217;ve accomplished things that I don&#8217;t think would be possible had we grown up in Nigeria. Of course, we&#8217;re extremely proud to be Nigerian (my family and friends can attest to that!) and I can&#8217;t wait to visit soon, but I really believe that each of our talents, from my parents to my little sister&#8217;s, have been unimaginably cultivated by the experiences we&#8217;ve had by also growing up as proud Texans in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I don&#8217;t think we can ever adequately thank God for these opportunities and blessings. But for sure, I can say my family and I are really grateful to Him to be here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/dmnjuly42013take2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-391\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/dmnjuly42013take2.png?w=450\" width=\"450\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/dmnjuly42013take2.png 661w, https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/dmnjuly42013take2-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, on July 4, 2003, I wrote an essay for a &#8220;patriotic essay&#8221; contest sponsored by Trinity Fest in Dallas. It was about why I loved America &#8211; basically, a few paragraphs considering all the opportunities I have been blessed to experience since my parents decided to move here to the U.S. many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,16,44,56,77,109,148,150,156,202,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}