{"id":420795,"date":"2017-12-18T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=420795"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:43:13","slug":"deshaun-davis-proves-doubters-wrong-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/deshaun-davis-proves-doubters-wrong-again\/","title":{"rendered":"DeShaun Davis proves doubters wrong again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp-12-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-420799\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp-12-18-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular, funny and positive high school football players I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure to cover is current Auburn linebacker DeShaun Davis.<br \/>\nDespite missing his senior season at Vigor High because of a knee injury, Davis was still in inspirational leader for his team and his school. He was also a good enough player to sign with Auburn despite that injury.<br \/>\nAll those positive attributes on and off the field made it no surprise that Davis spend Saturday going through graduation ceremonies at Auburn, just 3 and a half years after he arrived.<\/p>\n<p>But what was surprising was this graduation day tweet from Davis:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At the age of 12, I was kicked out of school &#8230; My teacher at the time literally looked my mother in her face and told her \u201cYou did a terrible job raising your son, he\u2019d be dead or in jail before he can make it out of high school.\u201d Well umm &#8230;. \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4EKEW8Lte6\">pic.twitter.com\/4EKEW8Lte6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2b50\ufe0fDeshaun Davis\u2b50 (@_Davis_Boy12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Davis_Boy12\/status\/942114721578315776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure who this teacher was, but if Davis\u2019 recollection is correct, then this teacher needs to Tighten Up.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s ridiculous to think you would give up on any 12-year-old kid. But dismissing a kid who would become such as inspiration and an early college graduate should be a lesson to us all about judging too quickly.<br \/>\nWho do you think needs to Tighten Up? Call in and the best and most entertaining suggestion will win a $25 gift card from Wintzell\u2019s Oyster House.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-420795-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp12-18.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp12-18.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp12-18.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>One of the most popular, funny and positive high school football players I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure to cover is current Auburn linebacker DeShaun Davis. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/deshaun-davis-proves-doubters-wrong-again\/\" title=\"DeShaun Davis proves doubters wrong again\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420806,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420795\/revisions\/420806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}