{"id":6610,"date":"2024-05-26T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:06:55","slug":"try-not-to-let-the-success-treadmill-obscure-the-actual-living-of-life-bates-seniors-told-at-158th-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/2024\/05\/26\/try-not-to-let-the-success-treadmill-obscure-the-actual-living-of-life-bates-seniors-told-at-158th-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Try not to let the success treadmill \u2018obscure the actual living of life,\u2019 Bates seniors told at 158th Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the nation\u2019s foremost journalists, NPR&#8217;s Mary Louise Kelly, offered three pieces of life advice to the Class of 2024: Be wary of when success becomes a non-stop treadmill, remember much of life depends on what we choose to see, and hold tight to those lifelong friendships forged at Bates.<\/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=\"sN9hHZd9nk\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/26\/try-not-to-let-the-success-treadmill-obscure-the-actual-living-of-life-bates-seniors-told-at-158th-commencement\/\">Try not to let the success treadmill \u2018obscure the actual living of life,\u2019 Bates seniors told at 158th Commencement<\/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;Try not to let the success treadmill \u2018obscure the actual living of life,\u2019 Bates seniors told at 158th Commencement&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/26\/try-not-to-let-the-success-treadmill-obscure-the-actual-living-of-life-bates-seniors-told-at-158th-commencement\/embed\/#?secret=T40uIAvkPD#?secret=sN9hHZd9nk\" data-secret=\"sN9hHZd9nk\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nation\u2019s foremost journalists, NPR&#8217;s Mary Louise Kelly, offered three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6611,"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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commencement-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}