{"id":1873,"date":"2018-05-21T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:02:41","slug":"student-story-john-curd-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Student Story: John Curd (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2016 we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1356\" >featured John Curd in one of our &#8216;student stories&#8217;<\/a>. John has a truly inspirational story and shows how studying with the OU can really turn your life around. John has now completed his BSc (hons) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching and recently attended his graduation ceremony. As you can see from the photographs he had a great day. As one of our older graduates John is proof that&#8217;s it&#8217;s never to late to achieve your dreams. We are very proud John and all of our sport and fitness graduates. If you have recently graduated and would like to share your graduation photos and\/or tell us what your graduation day was like please contact us at WELS-Sports@open.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/016.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1874 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/016-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/016-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/016-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/016-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/015.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1875 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/015-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/015-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/015-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/015-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/013.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1876 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/013-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/013-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/013-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/013-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/013-624x833.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/009.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1877 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/009-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/009-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/009-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/009-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/009-624x796.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read part 1 of John&#8217;s student story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1356\" >click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To read all of our student stories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?cat=93\" >click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2016 we featured John Curd in one of our &#8216;student stories&#8217;. John has a truly inspirational story and shows how studying with the OU can really turn your life around. John has now completed his BSc (hons) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching and recently attended his graduation ceremony. As you can see from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}