{"id":461,"date":"2021-09-11T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=461"},"modified":"2021-09-11T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T21:05:30","slug":"introduction-thomas-takele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/11\/introduction-thomas-takele\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction- Thomas Takele"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings! My name is Thomas Takele. I am from Silver Spring, Maryland. I came to the University of Richmond because I had heard it had a beautiful campus and generous with financial aid (which I later found out was the truth<\/span>). I went to Wheaton High School, where I played ba<\/span>sketball, was the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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secretary for the East African Student Association and volunteered to help in many other events within the school.<\/span>If you wanted to find me anytime w<\/span>hile I was in high school your best guess was on a basketball court. That is where most of my fun times were spent from the age of 9 to the age of 18. I had to take a break from basketball in the summer of 2021 because I had gone through a meniscus tear which I had thought was minor. It was actually two small tears that were so close together that they looked like one big one. I had got surgery and needed to find hobbies that I could do to live life without basketball. 6 weeks after the surgery I was able to walk again and I began hanging out with my friends again and having fun moments. T<\/span>\"\"his is when I had fell in love with taking pictures and capturing fun moments in life. This became my new hobby and what I could do while my leg was still healing from surgery. This gives you a glimpse of where I am in my current state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings! My name is Thomas Takele. I am from Silver Spring, Maryland. I came to the University of Richmond because I had heard it had a beautiful campus and generous with financial aid (which I later found out was the truth). I went to Wheaton High School, where I played basketball, was the\u00a0 secretary for the East African Student Association… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}