{"id":1124,"date":"2018-02-17T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2018-02-17T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T17:57:01","slug":"ktbs-smiling-through-shreves-demond-hill-stays-positive-despite-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"KTBS \u2013 Smiling Through: Shreve\u2019s Demond Hill stays positive despite heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into his senior season, Captain Shreve&#8217;s Demond Hill cared about one thing: playing on the Gators basketball team for one more season. That was until a health condition benched the 18-year-old. Unlike many who may look at the negatives of their situation, Demond decided to dwell on the positives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt breaks my heart because I just want to play. I just love to play basketball,\u201d explained Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to put the football in his hand, he would throw that down and pick up the basketball. I said no, get the football, he would throw it down and get the basketball,\u201d added Demond\u2019s mother Brenda Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The game he was born to play was never easy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and watch the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbs.com\/news\/arklatex-indepth\/smiling-through-shreve-s-demond-hill-stays-positive-despite-heart\/article_9c9a40b6-138e-11e8-80d3-9f839630a0e4.html\">KTBS.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into his senior season, Captain Shreve&#8217;s Demond Hill cared about one thing: playing on the Gators basketball team for one more season. That was until a health condition benched the 18-year-old. Unlike many who may look at the negatives of their situation, Demond decided to dwell on the positives. \u201cIt breaks my heart because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ktbs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ka5C-i8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}