{"599820":{"#nid":"599820","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Ashmons of Montezuma: A Family Affair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter Shannon Ashmon was admitted to Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Global Business MBA program, he encouraged his big sister LaShavous \u0026ldquo;Shay\u0026rdquo; Ashmon to apply so they could go through the graduate program together. Their matriculation would be a family reunion of sorts, since the two had been undergraduates together at Tech some 20 years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There was never a question of whether Shay would get into the program. It was more a question of whether I would get in,\u0026rdquo; Shannon joked, acknowledging his sister\u0026rsquo;s academic excellence. They began the program in August 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/graduate-profile-shay-and-shannon-ashmon\u0022\u003ERead their full story\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShay and Shannon\u0026#39;s graduation is a family reunion of sorts, since the two were undergraduates together at Tech some 20 years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Shay and Shannon\u0027s graduation is a family reunion of sorts, since the two were undergraduates together at Tech some 20 years ago."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2017-12-12 22:23:17","changed_gmt":"2017-12-12 22:24:49","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599821":{"id":"599821","type":"image","title":"Shannon and Shay Ashmon","body":null,"created":"1513117472","gmt_created":"2017-12-12 22:24:32","changed":"1513117472","gmt_changed":"2017-12-12 22:24:32","alt":"Shannon and Shay Ashmon","file":{"fid":"228678","name":"18C10302-P19-004_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C10302-P19-004_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C10302-P19-004_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1300978,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/18C10302-P19-004_web.jpg?itok=ag3R3S1N"}}},"media_ids":["599821"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/graduate-profile-shay-and-shannon-ashmon","title":"Read the full story"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"},{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"629","name":"graduation"},{"id":"1209","name":"MBA"},{"id":"176504","name":"global mba"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"167089","name":"Scheller College of Business"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVictor Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}