{"id":1702,"date":"2016-02-17T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2016-02-17T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:56:11","slug":"stephanie-kurlow-young-muslim-student-awarded-scholarship-by-bjorn-borg-in-aim-to-become-worlds-first-ever-hijab-wearing-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2016\/02\/17\/stephanie-kurlow-young-muslim-student-awarded-scholarship-by-bjorn-borg-in-aim-to-become-worlds-first-ever-hijab-wearing-ballerina\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Kurlow: Young Muslim student awarded scholarship by Bj\u00f6rn Borg in aim to become world\u2019s first-ever hijab-wearing ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/02\/Stephanie-Kurlow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1704\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/02\/Stephanie-Kurlow.png\" alt=\"Stephanie Kurlow\" width=\"172\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A teenage schoolgirl who said she dreamed of bringing the world together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/stephanie-kurlow-muslim-girl-world-first-hijab-ballerina-a6870191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming the first-ever hijab-wearing ballerina<\/a> looks set to achieve her goal after being awarded a life-changing scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Sports fashion brand Bj\u00f6rn Borg &#8211; named after the former number one Swedish tennis player &#8211; has announced it was moved to help 14-year-old Australian student Stephanie Kurlow after being \u201cgenuinely inspired\u201d by the teen\u2019s story.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/student\/news\/stephanie-kurlow-young-muslim-student-awarded-scholarship-by-bj-rn-borg-in-aim-to-become-world-s-a6876641.html\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage schoolgirl who said she dreamed of bringing the world together by becoming the first-ever hijab-wearing ballerina looks set to achieve her goal after being awarded a life-changing scholarship. Sports fashion brand Bj\u00f6rn Borg &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-religion","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}