{"id":2353,"date":"2010-05-18T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=2353"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:43:17","slug":"brent-j-jarkowski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/links\/senior-trustee-luncheon\/brent-j-jarkowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent J. Jarkowski"},"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\/2003\/brent-jarkowsky.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent J. Jarkowski,<\/strong> <em>from Pasadena, Maryland<\/em> <strong>&#8211;<\/strong> &#8220;When I decided that I wanted to come to Bates, my parents&#8217; friends used to ask them &#8216;Why Maine, from Maryland, why would he go to Maine?&#8217; and my parents would tease and say &#8216;Well, he always hated us the most.&#8217; And now I think, after four years and seeing the young man that I&#8217;ve become, I think my parents realize, and they told me this last night &#8212; which meant so much &#8212; is that I love myself enough to challenge myself to come to a place where I could be an individual and really just foster that. And Bates has been that place for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent J. Jarkowski, from Pasadena, Maryland &#8211; &#8220;When I decided that I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":2347,"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-2353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2353","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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2353\/revisions\/3946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}