{"id":7746,"date":"2011-06-20T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:30:22","slug":"57-year-old-woman-graduates-from-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7746","title":{"rendered":"57 Year-Old Woman Graduates From College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s <strong>Monique Laroche<\/strong> is living proof. The 57-year-old Plantation woman just received her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from Broward College. It wasn&#8217;t the economy that motivated <strong>Laroche<\/strong>, it was something much bigger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laroche<\/strong> is a mother of four and raising her kids was her number one priority, so college was put on hold until the kids were grown. &#8220;While I was in school my husband got sick. After two years he was diagnosed with cancer and he died,&#8221; <strong>Laroche<\/strong> said. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t continue going to school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With her husband of 30 years gone, <strong>Laroche<\/strong> dropped out. Finally, she thought of her husband to get her motivation back. &#8220;The best thing for me was to get my mind preoccupied,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The minute I walked in the door I was a different person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when <strong>Laroche<\/strong> started going straight to school from work. Not only helping herself, <strong>Monique <\/strong>was inspiring her son<strong> Vladimir<\/strong>. &#8220;He decided to quit his full-time job and go back school,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be completing my degree program in December and she&#8217;s been behind me the whole way,&#8221; <strong>Vladimir Laroche<\/strong> said. &#8220;To see her walk across the stage and be recognized for her accomplishments was a great thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s Monique Laroche is living proof. The 57-year-old Plantation woman just received her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from Broward College. It wasn&#8217;t the economy that motivated Laroche, it was something much bigger. Laroche is a mother of four and raising her kids was her number one priority, so college was put on hold until the kids were [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","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=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}