{"id":7496,"date":"2017-05-15T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:07:57","slug":"trayvon-martin-awarded-honorary-degree-florida-memorial-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/15\/trayvon-martin-awarded-honorary-degree-florida-memorial-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Trayvon Martin awarded honorary degree at Florida Memorial University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0 WFOR via CNN<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-pagination\" data-maxpages=\"1\">\n<div class=\"story__content__body story__content__body \">\n<p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. &#8211; (WFOR\/CNN) &#8211; Florida Memorial University on Saturday awarded an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/state\/trayvon-martin-to-receive-posthumous-degree-from-florida-memorial-university\"><strong>honorary degree to slain Florida teenager\u00a0Trayvon Martin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s parents attended the ceremony and accepted the teenager\u2019s degree in aeronautical science on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, who had dreamed of being a pilot, was killed five years ago in Sanford, Fla., after being shot by community watch member George Zimmerman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.scrippsdigital.com\/cms\/videoIframe.html?&amp;host=www.wptv.com&amp;title=Trayvon%2520Martin%2520receives%2520honorary%2520degree%2520from%2520Florida%2520Memorial%2520University&amp;vid=591974c82ba18860e8db34a5&amp;purl=\/news\/state\/trayvon-martin-awarded-honorary-degree-at-florida-memorial-university&amp;story=1&amp;s=wptv\" width=\"300\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s parent said the posthumous degree is bittersweet. (video will show ads.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this just shows what this community, how they feel, how they believe in our family, believe in our foundation. This was a day that we planned for as parents, we just wish that we would have watched him walk across the stage,&#8221; said Trayvon\u2019s father Tracy Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s mother graduated from Florida Memorial University located in Miami Gardens, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman was found not guilty in Martin&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/state\/trayvon-martin-awarded-honorary-degree-at-florida-memorial-university?utm_content=buffer7cbb4&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wptv.com<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by\u00a0 WFOR via CNN MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. &#8211; (WFOR\/CNN) &#8211; Florida Memorial University on Saturday awarded an honorary degree to slain Florida teenager\u00a0Trayvon Martin. Martin&#8217;s parents attended the ceremony and accepted the teenager\u2019s degree in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/15\/trayvon-martin-awarded-honorary-degree-florida-memorial-university\/\" title=\"Trayvon Martin awarded honorary degree at Florida Memorial University\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1167],"class_list":{"0":"post-7496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-trayvon-martin","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}