{"id":294845,"date":"2026-05-24T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294845"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:37:17","slug":"raiders-no-1-pick-fernando-mendoza-surprises-cals-mba-commencement-by-walking-the-stage-for-undergrad-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294845","title":{"rendered":"Raiders&#8217; No 1 pick Fernando Mendoza surprises Cal&#8217;s MBA commencement by walking the stage for undergrad degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Mendoza, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, left the Raiders briefly to walk the stage at Cal&#8217;s MBA commencement for his degree&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/raiders-1-pick-fernando-mendoza-surprises-cals-mba-commencement-walking-stage-undegrad-degree\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">at Fox<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Mendoza, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, left the Raiders briefly to walk the stage at Cal&#8217;s MBA commencement for his degree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294845"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=294845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}