{"id":1453,"date":"2015-06-28T19:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T19:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:04:37","slug":"betsy-kelly-barred-from-reunion-but-still-got-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"Betsy Kelly barred from reunion (but still got T-shirt!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150628Holmes.jpg\" alt=\"150628Holmes\" width=\"260\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150628Holmes.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150628Holmes-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>June 28, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cToday in Edenton members of John A. Holmes High School&#8217;s Class of \u201973 will walk across a stage in caps and gowns, receive diplomas and turn tassels on their mortar boards\u00a0 \u2013 20 years late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cTheir graduation ceremony was cancelled abruptly in 1973. A decision not to renew the contract of a black band leader had caused racial unrest, and school officials feared a disruption&#8230;. Diplomas were mailed to the 142 graduates&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOne member who doesn\u2019t plan to attend is Elizabeth Twiddy Kelly&#8230;. A condition of her ($400,000) bond prohibits her from going to her hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c \u2018There are a lot of them I would love to just touch base with, but that will have to happen another year,\u2019 Mrs. Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe class committee plans to send her a class T-shirt and a letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cClass of \u201973\u201d by the Associated Press (June 12, 1993)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Seven months later Betsy Kelly pleaded no contest to charges of child sex abuse, while maintaining her innocence, and accepted a sentence of seven years in prison. She was paroled in November 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 28, 2015 \u201cToday in Edenton members of John A. Holmes High School&#8217;s Class of \u201973 will walk across a stage in caps and gowns, receive diplomas and turn tassels on their mortar boards\u00a0 \u2013 20 years late. \u201cTheir graduation ceremony was cancelled abruptly in 1973. A decision not to renew the contract of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}