{"id":97559,"date":"2016-05-29T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97559"},"modified":"2019-06-21T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:09:42","slug":"black-girl-why-i-had-to-escape-my-ivy-league-life-and-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97559","title":{"rendered":"Black Girl: Why I had to escape my Ivy League life and disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/05\/29\/why-i-had-to-escape-my-ivy-league-life-and-disappear\/\">New York Post<\/a>: Nayla Kidd was an engineering student at Columbia University when <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/05\/14\/cops-search-for-missing-columbia-student\/\">reports that she had gone missing went viral<\/a>. She was found <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/05\/17\/columbia-student-found-safe-decided-to-start-new-life\/\">perfectly healthy nearly two weeks later<\/a>, only telling police she wanted to \u201cstart fresh.\u201d But the 19-year old\u2019s reason for going off the grid, without informing family or friends, remained a mystery. Here, Kidd reveals to The Post\u2019s <strong>Melkorka Licea<\/strong> what triggered her brazen escape from the Ivy League, how she pulled it off and where she goes from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post: Nayla Kidd was an engineering student at Columbia University when reports that she had gone missing went viral. She was found perfectly healthy nearly two weeks later, only telling police she wanted to \u201cstart fresh.\u201d But the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29728,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affirmative-action","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127925,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97559\/revisions\/127925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}