{"id":10804,"date":"2023-07-11T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2023-09-09T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:42:32","slug":"cp-is-no-hurdle-for-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/cp-is-no-hurdle-for-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerebral Palsy is No Hurdle for Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-masthead\">\n<header class=\"asset-header\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<ul class=\"list-inline\">\n<li><span class=\"tnt-byline\">By Summer Aguirre, Foothills Focus Managing Editor\u00a0 _\u00a0 <\/span><time class=\"tnt-date asset-date text-muted\" datetime=\"2023-07-04T00:00:00-07:00\">Jul 4, 2023<\/time>\u00a0<span class=\"text-muted tnt-update-recent\">Updated\u00a0<\/span><time class=\"tnt-date tnt-update-recent asset-date text-muted\" datetime=\"2023-07-07T14:04:06-07:00\">Jul 7, 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Boulder Creek High School senior Jack Florez was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant, his doctors told his mother that he wouldn\u2019t be able to walk \u2014 and even if he did, it would be with a walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Today, the 17-year-old is a competitive cross country runner with five years of experience under his belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As Jack has overcome many hurdles in his life with support from family, friends, mentors and therapists, he wants to inspire others with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cI\u2019ve never let anything anybody tells me prevent me from doing something. I\u2019ve always tried to do what I can within my limits,\u201d Jack said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cDon\u2019t let yourself or other people stop what you\u2019re trying to do. You can live a normal life with cerebral palsy or whatever disability you might have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefoothillsfocus.com\/youth\/cerebral-palsy-is-no-hurdle-for-boulder-creek-high-runner\/article_3bace74a-1527-11ee-a3d5-cbab6084e359.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Foothills Focus<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Summer Aguirre, Foothills Focus Managing Editor\u00a0 _\u00a0 Jul 4, 2023\u00a0Updated\u00a0Jul 7, 2023 When Boulder Creek High School senior Jack Florez was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as an infant, his doctors told his mother that he wouldn\u2019t be able to walk \u2014 and even if he did, it would be with a walker. Today, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11265,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/11265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucpofcentralaz.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}