{"id":14428,"date":"2013-02-08T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/?p=14428"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:14:39","slug":"mma-has-18-brothers-for-2013-14-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/14428\/mma-has-18-brothers-for-2013-14-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA has 18 brothers for the 2013-14 school year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OH, BROTHER!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Though MMA has never had a shortage of biological brothers, the 2013-14 school year brings the largest crop in years! This year, MMA has a total of 18 brothers, considerably higher than the average of 12. For a school with 250 students, that is an impressive number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the nine pairs, two of them are twins \u2013 another rare occurrence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the brothers originate from another country, 14 from Mexico and two from Nigeria. Two of the siblings hail from the state of New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brothers for the 2013-14 school year are: Diego and Rodolfo Aldape De La Vega of Queretaro, Mexico; Giancarlo and Giovanni Betti Hernandez of Huixquilucan, Mexico; Diego and Luis Cervantes Fabela of Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico; Jes\u00fas and Mariano Dorantes of Torreon, Mexico; I\u00f1aki and Rodrigo Falcon Zugaste of Mexico City; Carlos and Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Rizo of La Piedad, Mexico; David Ige and Josiah Neliaku-Chukwu of Abuja, Nigeria; Bruno and Daniel L\u00f3pez \u00c1lvarez of Mexico City; and Maxwell and Spencer Pascal of Westfield, N.J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2013-14-eighteen-brothers.jpg\" alt=\"MMA's 18 brothers for the 2013-14 school year\" class=\"wp-image-14429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2013-14-eighteen-brothers.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2013-14-eighteen-brothers-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2013-14-eighteen-brothers-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><figcaption>(Left to right)&nbsp;<strong>Sitting<\/strong>: Post-graduate Josiah Neliaku-Chukwu of Abuja, Nigeria; Junior Spencer Pascal of Westfield, N.J.; Eighth-grader Diego Aldape De La Vega of Queretaro, Mexico; Eighth-grader Giovanni Betti Hernandez of Huixquilucan, Mexico; Freshman Carlos Garcia Rizo of La Piedad, Mexico; Junior Rodrigo Falcon Zugaste of Mexico City; Junior Mariano Dorantes of Torreon, Mexico; Junior Daniel L\u00f3pez \u00c1lvarez of Mexico City; and Junior Diego Cervantes Fabela of Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico.&nbsp;<strong>Standing<\/strong>: Post-graduate David Ige of Abuja, Nigeria; Junior Maxwell Pascal of Westfield, N.J.; Senior Rodolfo Aldape De La Vega of Queretaro, Mexico; Eighth-grader Giancarlo Betti Hernandez of Huixquilucan, Mexico; Freshman Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Rizo of La Piedad, Mexico; Eighth-grader I\u00f1aki Falcon Zugaste of Mexico City; Senior Jes\u00fas Dorantes of Torreon, Mexico; Senior Bruno L\u00f3pez \u00c1lvarez of Mexico City; and Sophomore Luis Cervantes Fabela of Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OH, BROTHER! Though MMA has never had a shortage of biological brothers, the 2013-14 school year brings the largest crop in years! This year, MMA has a total of 18 brothers, considerably higher than the average of 12. For a school with 250 students, that is an impressive number. Of the nine pairs, two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14462,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428\/revisions\/14462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}