{"id":51,"date":"2010-04-08T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:43","slug":"postcards-from-bates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2008\/fall08\/postcards-from-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/2008-fall\/departments\/AESOP-HLB-362224468.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nDuring a pre-orientation trip in late August, new Bates students and their trip co-leaders dive into the calm waters of the Basin on the New Meadows River near Bath, Maine. To get this photo, trip co-leader Lincoln Benedict \u201909 (second from left) rigged his camera to the mast and tripped it with a remote control he\u2019s holding in his left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Known as AESOP, the Outing Club\u2013run orientation program offers around 40 trips annually and is one of just a few nationally that students alone oversee. From left: co-leader Emily Chandler \u201909, whose family shared their Vineyard Vixen 34 sailboat for the AESOP trip; co-leader Benedict; and first-years Ben Williams, Stephen Wright, Erin Pinover, and Monica Rodriguez. Standing near the stern is Maria Rouvalis.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul class=\"pageChildren\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-54\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2008\/fall08\/postcards-from-bates\/dual-demmitts\/\">Dual Demmitts<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-53\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2008\/fall08\/postcards-from-bates\/set-shot\/\">Set Shot<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-52\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2008\/fall08\/postcards-from-bates\/stroke-of-dawn\/\">Stroke of Dawn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a pre-orientation trip in late August, new Bates students and their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"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-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10499,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/10499"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}