{"id":224,"date":"2007-06-18T06:57:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T13:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2007-06-18T06:57:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T13:57:47","slug":"carlsbad-jock-goes-ivy-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Jock Goes Ivy League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/61707190917.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/61707190917.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/61707190917-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"61707190917\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad High School&#8217;s <strong>Spencer Hood<\/strong>, 18, graduated last week with honors and a 4.1 grade point average. Now, he&#8217;s on his way to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth<\/a><\/strong> where says he&#8217;d like to put the &#8220;stereotype of dumb-jock to rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I always get labeled as the &#8216;football player,&#8217; the &#8216;dumb jock,&#8217; but that&#8217;s not the case,&#8221; he said last week. &#8220;It&#8217;s a general misconception that athletes are not well-rounded, that they don&#8217;t focus on academics. People are surprised when they see someone who can excel at both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hood, who was named scholar-athlete of the year and defensive football player of the year, has a  fraternal twin brother, <strong>Gordon,<\/strong> also graduated with honors and is off to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown<\/a><\/strong>. Yeah, they&#8217;re a  double threat.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to the entire Hood family.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/18\/news\/coastal\/61707190917.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad High School&#8217;s Spencer Hood, 18, graduated last week with honors and a 4.1 grade point average. Now, he&#8217;s on his way to Dartmouth where says he&#8217;d like to put the &#8220;stereotype of dumb-jock to rest.&#8221; I always get labeled as the &#8216;football player,&#8217; the &#8216;dumb jock,&#8217; but that&#8217;s not the case,&#8221; he said last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}