{"id":93176,"date":"2017-09-19T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93176"},"modified":"2017-09-19T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T11:35:11","slug":"bill-ballenger-speaks-at-crestview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/bill-ballenger-speaks-at-crestview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ballenger speaks at Crestview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cview_BTG_Speaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Motivational speaker and international recording artist Bill Ballenger recently brought his \u201cBreak the Grey\u201d program to Crestview Middle School and High School.\u00a0Students heard Ballenger speak on issues like suicide, substance abuse, bullying and self-worth by sharing skits and Ballenger\u2019s life experiences.\u00a0Ballenger shared his story of bad choices culminating in a three-year prison conviction for him and his wife in Indiana at 18. He also challenged students not to make the choices he made and to take their lives and futures seriously.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motivational speaker and international recording artist Bill Ballenger recently brought his \u201cBreak the Grey\u201d program to Crestview Middle School and High School.\u00a0Students heard Ballenger speak on issues like suicide, substance abuse, bullying and self-worth by sharing skits and Ballenger\u2019s life experiences.\u00a0Ballenger shared his story of bad choices culminating in a three-year prison conviction for him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:38:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}