{"id":2941,"date":"2011-05-31T08:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2011-05-31T08:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:29:28","slug":"braylon-edwards-pays-for-100-students-to-attend-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/braylon-edwards-pays-for-100-students-to-attend-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards pays for 100 students to attend college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From AOL SportingNews:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is a man of his word. And because he is, 100 students are going to college on his dime.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their college tuition&#8212;a total value of $1 million&#8212;if they maintained grade point averages at 2.5 or higher and performed 15 hours of community service. The students lived up to their end of the bargain, and now Edwards is living up to his end, according to CBSSports.com and the Detroit Free Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the 2nd most hated man in Clev &amp; a man of my word, today I  will honor a promise made to 100 students in Cleveland years ago,&#8221;  Edwards tweeted. &#8220;The last of my Advance 100 students will graduate from  my program and head off to college on scholarships that I will provide  them with. Guys, enjoy and embrace your new beginnings and remember your  promise to me, to reach back &amp; help someone else along the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A former University of Michigan receiver and a Detroit native,  Edwards, 28, was a first-round draft pick of the Browns in 2005. His  time in Cleveland was sometimes marked by controversy and in October  2009, the Browns traded him to the Jets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aol.sportingnews.com\/nfl\/story\/2011-05-27\/braylon-edwards-pays-for-100-students-to-attend-college\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AOL SportingNews: Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is a man of his word. And because he is, 100 students are going to college on his dime. In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their college tuition&#8212;a total value of $1 million&#8212;if they maintained grade point averages at &#8230; <a title=\"Edwards pays for 100 students to attend college\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/braylon-edwards-pays-for-100-students-to-attend-college\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edwards pays for 100 students to attend college<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}