{"id":3269,"date":"2023-07-04T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:07:16","slug":"a-clean-slate-for-2023-sharmain-harris-gets-pardon-after-years-of-community-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"A clean slate for 2023: Sharmain Harris gets pardon after years of community work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">New Year\u2019s Day offers the chance for a clean slate in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">At 6 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2022, Sharmain Harris got his clean slate, via email, while coaching his son\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">\u201cI sent the kids out on a water break, and I checked my messages and I saw the email that I had been waiting for,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI belly yelled, I was breathing super hard. It was kind of like going through a panic attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">It was a message from the governor\u2019s office, informing Harris that his pardon had been officially approved and would be in the mail soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">Harris, who stepped out of prison in 2013 at age 24, has spent the last nine years rebuilding his life and working to help better his community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">This New Year\u2019s Day, Harris can celebrate the next chapter of his life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kenoshanews.com\/news\/local\/a-clean-slate-for-2023-sharmain-harris-gets-pardon-after-years-of-community-work\/article_7112c158-86f6-11ed-bdcc-9f1e8e716317.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 145, 77);\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}