{"id":7143,"date":"2016-12-05T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2016-12-08T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:38:55","slug":"esperanza-basketball-star-kezie-okpala-featured-in-local-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=7143","title":{"rendered":"Esperanza basketball star Kezie Okpala featured in local newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Orange County Register<\/em> recently profiled Esperanza High School senior Kezie Okpala. The reigning Crestview League Player of the Year, Kezie averaged a school-record 23 points per game last year, while also leading the team in rebounds, assists and steals. Earlier this year, he committed to play basketball for Stanford University. Kezie&#8217;s drive will bode well for Esperanza, ranked No. 3 in OC Varsity&#8217;s preseason Top 10. The Aztecs went 20-4 last season, capturing the Crestview League championship.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/okpala-737444-ball-esperanza.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the article. Go Aztecs!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7145\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/esperanza-kezie-okpala-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7145\" class=\"wp-image-7145 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/esperanza-kezie-okpala-1-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/esperanza-kezie-okpala-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/esperanza-kezie-okpala-1.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esperanza boys basketball player Kezie Okpala, a senior, is perhaps the top player in the county this season and has recently signed with Stanford. \u00a9 Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register\/SCNG<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Register recently profiled Esperanza High School senior Kezie Okpala. The reigning Crestview League Player of the Year, Kezie averaged a school-record 23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-esperanza-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}