{"id":820,"date":"2019-09-22T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/22\/2019922roberto-casillas-is-living-the-american-dream\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:27:59","slug":"2019922roberto-casillas-is-living-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/09\/22\/2019922roberto-casillas-is-living-the-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Casillas Is Living the American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Dante Turo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">HAMDEN \u2013 Roberto Casillas was on his way to playing professional soccer in Mexico before a serious injury changed everything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Casillas would train hard every day, skipping the parties with his friends to focus on his soccer career. A broken patellar tendon would sideline Casillas for two years, and cut his soccer career short. Since then, he\u2019s come to Quinnipiac to pursue a career in becoming a soccer journalist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI want to be a soccer journalist or be in sports media covering soccer,\u201d Casillas said. \u201cThat\u2019s a part of sports media in the US that is not as competitive, as say, Mexico would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is only the beginning for Roberto, and he\u2019s excited for what lies ahead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWho knows where life\u2019s gonna take me,\u201d Casillas said. <\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:805.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:57.01863098144531%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14_image-asset.png\" alt=\"Roberto Casillas\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14_image-asset.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14_image-asset.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"805x459\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Roberto Casillas\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d87d9add4e8684cb8913355\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\">Roberto Casillas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Roberto Casillas came to Quinnipiac to pursue a career in becoming a soccer journalist after his soccer career was cut short due to injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,236,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-qnn","category-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}