{"id":1064,"date":"2020-04-30T02:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2020-04-30T03:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:31:33","slug":"cameron-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/2020\/04\/30\/cameron-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron King"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]\u201cAround the middle of my eighth-grade year, we actually had a pretty catastrophic event with our house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur house was at the base of a hill, and I guess there was some kind of erosion that happened through the winter, and it broke our foundation. My dad was actually home one day and he heard a loud pop. We walked into the back, where there\u2019s, like, a laundry room and it was a concrete floor. There was no carpet or anything. There was just, like, a crack, a pretty big crack that was going on. The windows, where they were, like, squares, started shifting into parallelograms because it was so bad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to file an insurance claim, but for some reason, the insurance would not cover such a random event. They said, \u2018We can\u2019t cover a cause like that.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents couldn\u2019t do anything. They probably did have a pretty decent position if we were to have a case or something like that, but the problem is: Whenever you have no house, who has the time to get a lawyer?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbout two years before that event happened, my mom had started as a part-time student because she wanted to go back to nursing school. A year into that, she committed to being a full-time student. My dad picked up so many more shifts and anything that he could, and my mom was going really hard as a full-time student.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have the property of the house and the property of the land with my dad\u2019s motorcycle shop. Since we\u2019d lost all that land, we had to file bankruptcy because we had no possible way to pay off the rest of the house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese things are pretty catastrophic, but my parents are really strong. I was in the transition of being a teenager at the time, and they were really protective of that sensitive time. They didn\u2019t make me work or anything like that because they knew my academics were doing so well. They didn\u2019t want to spoil that for anything, even if it meant them having to work harder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom was still going as a full-time student, but she was also working full time. It was difficult for my dad because he had worked all of his life as a local business owner. He ended up getting another job where he was getting paid very little. It was pretty low to support a family who had just lost their house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe got lucky. I had this friend from middle school that I was super close with, and I\u2019m still super close with. He introduced me to his church, and they actually had property for people who are transitioning. It was like a house right beside the church. It was amazing. I want to say the event happened around, like, January, February, and then we were able to stay there until about June.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t homeless for that long \u2014 you know, like a week \u2014 and we were just staying with family. It\u2019s still that fear: Where is the next home going to be? We got lucky enough with that property and having close connection with friends, but other than that, it would be hard to tell where that transition would have happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow after working nonstop for the past four years, my mom and other family members are finally learning to enjoy life again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a super nice house now that\u2019s amazing. It definitely was a product of my parents working really hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially what I see my parents doing is they\u2019re taking the tiniest sliver of opportunity they have available and they\u2019re trying to see how far they can take that to make the lives better for those around them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to do the same with college. After being lucky enough to be the recipient of a large scholarship, I want to make the most out of this one opportunity, just like they have.\u201d<\/span>
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Cameron King, a first-year in electrical and computer engineering, knew he wanted to be an engineer after countless robotics competitions in high school. After his family was struck by a sudden setback when he was in eighth grade, his parents set an example of resilience that he\u2019s taken with him to college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4077,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\u201cAround the middle of my eighth-grade year, we actually had a pretty catastrophic event with our house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWe tried to file an insurance claim, but for some reason, the insurance would not cover such a random event. They said, \u2018We can\u2019t cover a cause like that.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cNow after working nonstop for the past four years, my mom and other family members are finally learning to enjoy life again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWe live in a super nice house now that\u2019s amazing. It definitely was a product of my parents working really hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m trying to do the same with college. After being lucky enough to be the recipient of a large scholarship, I want to make the most out of this one opportunity, just like they have.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"coauthors":[9],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hilton-sp2020"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/files\/2020\/04\/Cameron-King-1-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelantern.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}