{"id":137312,"date":"2024-12-21T09:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=137312"},"modified":"2024-12-21T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:47:49","slug":"big-boi-teams-up-with-atlanta-organizations-to-gift-free-bikes-to-local-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=137312","title":{"rendered":"Big Boi Teams Up With Atlanta Organizations To Gift Free Bikes To Local Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_137309\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137309\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137309\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-1127490617-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-1127490617-640x450.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-1127490617-160x113.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-1127490617.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-137309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ATLANTA, GEORGIA &#8211; FEBRUARY 03: Big Boi performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on February 03, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Big Boi<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antwan \u201cBig Boi\u201d Patton of Outkast has teamed up with local organizations to give away free bikes to Atlanta\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bear Creek Middle School and Kipp Ways Academy students were given bikes worth $700 for their attendance and good grades. Big Boi\u2019s Big Kids Foundation joined the venture the nonprofit Bear Strong Inc. sparked to gift special rewards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former half of OutKast was able to help bring the initiative to life, inspiring students to keep learning despite the hardships they may face. Big Boi hopes the moment inspires these future leaders to do the same once they achieve their goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s definitely heartwarming. I love it. I would want somebody to do that in a position like that\u2026When I was younger to have this done for me and I wanted to pay it back,\u201d Big Boi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/big-boi-atlanta-organizations-gifts-elementary-scholars-with-free-bikes\/GJNUGTR225CLZAMNN3J4RV3M44\/?outputType=amp\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>WSB-TV<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Boi Antwan \u201cBig Boi\u201d Patton of Outkast has teamed up with local organizations to give away free bikes to Atlanta\u2019s youth. Bear Creek Middle School and Kipp Ways Academy students were given bikes worth $700 for their attendance and good grades. Big Boi\u2019s Big Kids Foundation joined the venture the nonprofit Bear Strong Inc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137314,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137312\/revisions\/137314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}