{"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. 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