{"id":7097,"date":"2021-05-17T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:56","slug":"a-bond-the-pandemic-cant-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2021\/05\/17\/a-bond-the-pandemic-cant-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bond the Pandemic Can\u2019t Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobatesbobcats.com\/news\/2021\/5\/11\/general-bobcats-navigators-the-bates-special-olympics-club-a-bond-the-pandemic-can-t-break.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bates Athletics featured a story<\/a> about a partnership between some of the College&#8217;s student athletes and the Navigators program at John F. Murphy homes, a local provider of services for individuals with intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities. We share this story with you in this week&#8217;s blog post and hope it warms your heart as much as it did ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/05\/BatesAthletics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"41\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/05\/BatesAthletics.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/05\/BatesAthletics.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/05\/BatesAthletics-200x34.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Bates Athletics featured a story about a partnership between some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10312,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/10312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}