{"id":1761,"date":"2010-05-11T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=1761"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:01:08","slug":"y2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1782\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?attachment_id=1782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2009.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2009-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s offical: they&#8217;ve graduated. (From left) Iris Lim &#8217;09, Olivia Liggio &#8217;09, Mia Lidofsky &#8217;09, Rachel Lichter &#8217;09 and Julie Libin &#8217;09 mark the moment.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>People like to believe that positive change just happens, Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis told the Bates College Class of 2009 during its commencement ceremony May 31. But with so many aspects of our society, Davis said, &#8220;change must be firmly and continuously pushed in order to be effected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Keep Reading<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"pageChildren\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-95\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/baccalaureate-service\/\">Baccalaureate Service 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-5 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/events\/\">Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-73 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/honorands\/\">Honorands 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2227\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/landing\/\">Landing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1896 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/links\/\">Links<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2383 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2009\/photos\/\">Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like to believe that positive change just happens, Academy Award-winning actress&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":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":""},"class_list":["post-1761","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761\/revisions\/3787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}