{"id":2341,"date":"2010-05-18T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/commencement\/radu-costinescu\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:45:46","slug":"radu-costinescu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2002\/senior-trustee-luncheon\/radu-costinescu\/","title":{"rendered":"Radu Costinescu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 6px;margin-right: 6px;border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/cmr\/senior-luncheon\/2002\/costinescu.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Radu Costinescu,<\/strong> <em>from Romania<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;I basically wanted to get away from the large, impersonal continental European universities and go to a fairly small place that also is intellectually challenging. Bates, according to its Web site at least, is such a place. I didn&#8217;t have a chance to visit, so I just trusted the Web designer. And I am pleased to say four years after that there is truth in advertising. I found Bates to be a great place, and I never once felt out of place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radu Costinescu, from Romania &#8211; &#8220;I basically wanted to get away from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":2329,"menu_order":4,"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-2341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341","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=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341\/revisions\/3981"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}