{"id":2547,"date":"2015-12-14T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2016-01-04T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:29:01","slug":"he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2015\/12\/14\/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"He Ain&#8217;t Heavy, He&#8217;s My Brother!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gassert, a sophomore Professional Communications major, knows a thing or two about brotherly love.\u00a0 How else could he have helped transform his younger brother Steven &#8211; who was born with Down Syndrome &#8211; into a champion powerlifter?<\/p>\n<p>Steven had a debilitating disability to overcome, and as a child even had to be held up in order to sit upright.\u00a0 But he was determined to get better, and with Robert&#8217;s help became a teen National Champion Powerlifter in the USPAL.\u00a0 In October Steven won first prize in the USA Powerlifting 2015 Raw Nationals.\u00a0 And keeping it all in the family, Robert &#8211; also a powerlifter &#8211; placed fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Steven has accomplished so much in the sport that he even has a sponsor &#8211; Contraband Sports.\u00a0 You can follow Steven on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stevengpowerlifter59kg\/\" target=\"_blank\">@stevengpowerlifter59kg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gassert, a sophomore Professional Communications major, knows a thing or two about brotherly love.\u00a0 How else could he have helped transform his younger brother Steven &#8211; who was born with Down Syndrome &#8211; into a champion powerlifter? Steven had a debilitating disability to overcome, and as a child even had to be held up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}