{"id":14409,"date":"2012-05-07T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14409"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:30:14","slug":"shaq-gets-his-doctoral-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14409","title":{"rendered":"Shaq Gets His  Doctoral Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired NBA superstar <strong>Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/strong> graduated Saturday with a doctoral degree in education from the Miami Shores University. His 7-foot-1 frame donned a red-and-black velvet gown as he joins 1,100 graduating students at the commencement ceremonies at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Known simply as <strong>Shaq,<\/strong> he now can call himself <strong>Dr. O\u2019Neal<\/strong>. For 4\u00bd years, the former Miami Heat center took 16 courses, completed 54 credit hours and carried a grade point average of 3.813, according to the university. The 40-year-old\u2019s exact degree is in Organizational Learning and Leadership, with a specialization in human resource development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired NBA superstar Shaquille O\u2019Neal graduated Saturday with a doctoral degree in education from the Miami Shores University. His 7-foot-1 frame donned a red-and-black velvet gown as he joins 1,100 graduating students at the commencement ceremonies at the James L. Knight Center in Miami. Known simply as Shaq, he now can call himself Dr. O\u2019Neal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}