{"id":236749,"date":"2026-03-26T01:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:11:15","slug":"how-an-oakland-university-graduate-turned-the-pandemic-into-a-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236749\/","title":{"rendered":"How an Oakland University Graduate Turned the Pandemic into a Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT, MICH. ~ For many, the pandemic had lots of negative physical and mental affects. But for 23-year-old Oakland University graduate Charles Stevens, the tumultuous time actually helped prepare him for his current job at Disney. COVID-19 first hit Stevens when he was a junior in high school and lasted throughout his freshman year in college. While those three years weren\u2019t always easy to navigate, Stevens has found positives to look back on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy schedule is constantly changing, so in a way, working for Disney like this reminds me a lot of the uncertainty as it relates to my schedule,\u201d Stevens said on All Talk Wednesday morning. \u201cOne morning I\u2019m early morning, the next I\u2019m closing. So I have that kind of uncertainty. And it feels kind of nice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT, MICH. ~ For many, the pandemic had lots of negative physical and mental affects. But for 23-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-236749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}