{"id":12284,"date":"2020-09-16T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/?p=12284"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:46:16","slug":"the-rhetoric-of-a-bates-convocation-reminds-us-why-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/2020\/09\/16\/the-rhetoric-of-a-bates-convocation-reminds-us-why-were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The rhetoric of a Bates Convocation reminds us why we\u2019re here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a summer where endless rounds of public health planning and announcements seemed to define the college enterprise, Bates\u2019 Opening Convocation on Sept. 1 offered welcome reminders of what we\u2019re all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-news wp-block-embed-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BjJysXbpUd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/04\/the-rhetoric-of-a-bates-convocation-reminds-us-why-were-here\/\">The rhetoric of a Bates Convocation reminds us why we&#8217;re here<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The rhetoric of a Bates Convocation reminds us why we&#8217;re here&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/04\/the-rhetoric-of-a-bates-convocation-reminds-us-why-were-here\/embed\/#?secret=WwesWJ53mS#?secret=BjJysXbpUd\" data-secret=\"BjJysXbpUd\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a summer where endless rounds of public health planning and announcements&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1157,"featured_media":11655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,29,24],"class_list":["post-12284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","tag-convocation","tag-faculty","tag-student-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15411,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions\/15411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}