{"id":6222,"date":"2025-05-22T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6222"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:43:28","slug":"after-epilepsy-diagnosis-valedictorian-graduates-with-33-college-credits","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/news\/after-epilepsy-diagnosis-valedictorian-graduates-with-33-college-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"After Epilepsy Diagnosis, Valedictorian Graduates With 33 College Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<section style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF;color:#2D2D2D;\" class=\"section custom-section position-relative  align wp-block-acf-section\" data-desktop-bg=\"\" data-mobile-bg=\"\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-link-color wp-elements-940a8ab25fa4fcd8f7c033a10117d1ae is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p>At just 13, Zoe O&#8217;Hearn began college courses while attending Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy. Months later, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, facing unpredictable seizures and emotional challenges. Despite this, Zoe stayed focused on her education, earning 33 college credits and graduating high school at 16. Creative writing, music, and art became her outlet. This fall, she\u2019ll attend Oklahoma Christian University, majoring in gaming and animation\u2014proving resilience and creativity can thrive even through adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kjrh.com\/news\/local-news\/after-epilepsy-diagnosis-valedictorian-graduates-with-33-college-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read the full article on 2 News Oklahoma here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At just 13, Zoe O&#8217;Hearn began college courses while attending Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy. Months later, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, facing unpredictable seizures and emotional challenges. Despite this, Zoe stayed focused on her education, earning 33 college credits and graduating high school at 16. Creative writing, music, and art became her outlet. This fall, she\u2019ll attend Oklahoma Christian University, majoring in gaming and animation\u2014proving resilience and creativity can thrive even through adversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6223,"template":"","news_category":[],"news_tag":[26],"news_keyword":[216],"news_state":[86],"class_list":["post-6222","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_tag-k12-in-the-news","news_keyword-ovca","news_state-oklahoma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"news_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tag?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"news_keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_keyword?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"news_state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_state?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}