{"id":4241,"date":"2018-03-19T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2023-12-13T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:58:06","slug":"dreams-do-come-true-the-owens-family-visits-president-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2018\/03\/19\/dreams-do-come-true-the-owens-family-visits-president-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams do come true! The Owens Family visits President Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With warm hugs and smiling faces, the Owens family made a special visit to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\">SPC President Dr. Tonjua Williams<\/a> during their Spring Break vacation. The family shared with Dr. Williams how they\u2019ve visited many historical places but to actually meet someone who\u2019s making history is life-changing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Williams became the first African-American and first female president of St. Petersburg College in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Dr. Williams\u2019 accomplishments and to honor her, Tanner and her younger sister Talen entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2018\/01\/09\/governor-rick-scott-and-first-lady-ann-scott-invite-k-12-students-to-participate-in-2018-black-history-month-contests\/\">2018 Governor Rick Scott and First Lady Ann Scott Black History Month Contest<\/a>. Tanner, a fifth grader, summited an essay titled \u201cDreams Do Come True: An Innovative Woman.\u201d Talen, a third grader, submitted a portrait of Williams.<\/p>\n<p>During the Owens family visit, Dr. Williams encouraged the young ladies to stay focused on their education and to remember, \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely, positively nothing you cannot do, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SPCPresident\/videos\/1480721745384464\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With warm hugs and smiling faces, the Owens family made a special visit to meet SPC President Dr. Tonjua Williams during their Spring Break vacation. The family shared with Dr. Williams how they\u2019ve visited many historical places but to actually meet someone who\u2019s making history is life-changing. Dr. Williams became the first African-American and first&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":4244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spc-inspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}