{"id":493,"date":"2010-04-26T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/commencement2006\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:09:25","slug":"y2006","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1779\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?attachment_id=1779\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1779\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2006.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2006-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graduates pass through a Baccalaureate archway at the conclusion of the service.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Honoring the Class of 2006<\/p>\n<p>Sent on their way with armfuls of good advice \u2014 including best-selling historian David McCullough&#8217;s\u00a0suggestion that &#8220;however little television you watch, watch less&#8221; \u2014 387 Bates College students made the transition from seniors to alumni in a 10 a.m. ceremony on May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving honorary degrees at Bates&#8217; 140th Commencement besides McCullough were the Shakespearean scholar and cultural critic Marjorie Garber, of Harvard University; AIDS-HIV researcher David Ho, who pioneered the &#8220;drug cocktail&#8221; therapy that has drastically reduced deaths from the disease; and acclaimed choreographer Mark Morris.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Keep Reading<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x117576.xml\"><ul class=\"pageChildren\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-487 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/baccalaureate-service-2\/\">Baccalaureate service 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-213\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/commencement-weekend-photos-3\/\">Commencement Day Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1298 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/events\/\">Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-505 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/honorands\/\">Honorands 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2224 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/landing-06\/\">Landing &#8217;06<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-495\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2006\/photos\/\">Weekend Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring the Class of 2006 Sent on their way with armfuls of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","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-493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions\/3882"}],"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=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}