{"id":216114,"date":"2026-06-11T03:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:07:37","slug":"69-news-jaciel-cordoba-motivates-graduates-with-words-of-wisdom-at-commencement-ceremony-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216114\/","title":{"rendered":"69 News&#8217; Jaciel Cordoba motivates graduates with words of wisdom at commencement ceremony | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; A local charter school had a special guest at their graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Our very own Jaciel Cordoba spoke at Roberto Clemente Charter School&#8217;s commencement Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the graduates some words of wisdom as they headed off to their next chapter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need to have everything figured out today, just start. Show up. Speak up. Say something. Choose your people wisely and listen when experience speaks, even if it&#8217;s not what you want to hear,&#8221; said Cordoba.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jaciel also spoke to the graduates about the importance of learning from their mistakes, working hard, and enjoying what they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; A local charter school had a special guest at their graduation ceremony. Our very own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,233],"class_list":["post-216114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}