{"id":275860,"date":"2026-05-18T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:59:07","slug":"photos-the-first-academy-graduation-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275860\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: The First Academy graduation 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h949733-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Faculty and staff lined up to say their goodbyes to the graduating class of 2026 at The First Academy\u2019s graduation ceremony Friday, May 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h949733-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">As students walked in, the crowd cheered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h949733-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Speeches were given by Head of School Steve Whitaker, Principal Joyce Kwak, Valedictorian Eli Harrison and Salutatorian Amie Newell to name a few.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h949733-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Seniors also sang worship songs and participated in the Candlelight Ceremony, passing the fire from their candles to juniors\u2019 candles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h949733-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">This ceremony commissions the juniors as the new campus leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h949733-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Diplomas then were handed out and seniors officially became alumni.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faculty and staff lined up to say their goodbyes to the graduating class of 2026 at The First&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-275860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}