{"id":232,"date":"2009-01-02T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-01-02T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T19:44:36","slug":"oprah-donates-365000-to-atlanta-school-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Donates $365,000 To Atlanta School (Chicago Tribune)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/oprah_winfrey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-242\" title=\"oprah_winfrey\" src=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/oprah_winfrey.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> sent a surprise Christmas present to an inner-city  Atlanta school<\/a>: a $365,000 check! (Oprah is a former guest on Seattle&#8217;s Music Inner City)<\/p>\n<p>An educator named Ron Clark almost didn&#8217;t notice the whopping check, which  was included in a letter from the talk show host. Clark opened the private  academy in 2007 in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Atlanta. Most  students rely on private donations to pay the $14,000-per-year tuition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/photos\/stars-good-deeds\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We teach school all day and fundraise at night,&#8221; Clark told the Associated  Press. &#8220;To have an unsolicited gift come like that is incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark says the donation will pay for 26 students to attend the 80-student  middle school for one year.<\/p>\n<p>In her letter, Winfrey calls Clark a role model and says he&#8217;s making a  &#8220;profound difference&#8230;[with] your passion for teaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The check came from the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, which handed out $4 million  to educational programs in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Winfrey is gearing up for <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>&#8216;s January 20  Inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oprah is doing her show live from the Kennedy Center that week and flying  her staff in for it. It&#8217;s going to be a huge production,&#8221; an insider tells the  <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The big-time supporter also plans to co-host a party with BFF <strong>Gayle  King<\/strong> after Obama is sworn in, the paper reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/photos\/Barack-Obamas-Biggest-Fans\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah Winfrey sent a surprise Christmas present to an inner-city Atlanta school: a $365,000 check! (Oprah is a former guest on Seattle&#8217;s Music Inner City) An educator named Ron Clark almost didn&#8217;t notice the whopping check, which was included in a letter from the talk show host. Clark opened the private academy in 2007 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-much-more","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}