{"id":1927,"date":"2014-01-31T21:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2021-12-08T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:16:51","slug":"living-the-augsburg-mission-devean-george-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2014\/01\/31\/living-the-augsburg-mission-devean-george-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Augsburg Mission: Devean George &#8217;99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July of this year, Augsburg alumnus and former NBA player Devean George &#8217;99 was featured in the Star\u00a0Tribune for his efforts to bring a sense of hope to the North Minneapolis community. Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Devaen George Article : Star Tribune 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/minneapolis\/214694361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This past month, Devean&#8217;s non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/buildingblocksmn.org\/\">Building Blocks<\/a>\u00a0released a video <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/84814920\">15by15 Campaign<\/a>, an ambitious plan to &#8220;rebuild a community, one block at a time.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/Devaen-George-1devc1n-1024x7414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1935 size-full\" title=\"Devaen-George-1devc1n-1024x741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/Devaen-George-1devc1n-1024x7414.jpg\" alt=\"Devean George\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/Devaen-George-1devc1n-1024x7414.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/01\/Devaen-George-1devc1n-1024x7414-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July of this year, Augsburg alumnus and former NBA player Devean George &#8217;99 was featured in the Star\u00a0Tribune for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51214,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/51214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}