{"id":26782,"date":"2024-09-17T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/?p=26782"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:45:48","slug":"voices-views-landon-ablan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/voices-views-landon-ablan\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices &#038; Views: Landon Ablan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>By Shane Kaneshiro | Staff Writer<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Landon Ablan is a first-year student at KCC who lives in Palolo\u00a0Valley. The 17-year-old is majoring in Liberal Arts Psychology and is planning to major in Psychology. After two years at KCC, Ablan intends to transfer to University of Nevada, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to travel,\u201d Ablan said. \u201cI don&#8217;t want to stay here for my entire life. I want to move somewhere else, experience new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To pay his tuition at KCC, Ablan is earning money from his small business of selling <span style=\"color: #000000;\">collectible trading cards such as Pok\u00e9mon and One Piece for about four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI can easily cover my tuition at least for KCC,\u201d Ablan said. \u201cNot like a crazy amount, but I make enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He mainly sells at local card shows and online social media platforms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/just_for_kicks_collectables?igsh=MXFudzM1NzhmZHgyaw==\">Instagram<\/a>. At the card shows, Ablan enjoys helping other people selling their cards or just giving away cards. Most times, Alban will give them to kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI just love to see people happy,\u201d Ablan said. \u201cIf I can make somebody&#8217;s day or experience at these shows better, I will always do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shane Kaneshiro | Staff Writer Landon Ablan is a first-year student at KCC who lives in Palolo\u00a0Valley. The 17-year-old is majoring in Liberal Arts Psychology and is planning to major in Psychology. After two years at KCC, Ablan intends to transfer to University of Nevada, Las Vegas. \u201cI just want to travel,\u201d Ablan said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":26784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices-views","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}