{"id":105167,"date":"2016-09-06T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=105167"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:26:49","slug":"convocation-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/06\/convocation-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for Convocation 2016, beginning at 11 a.m., Sept. 6.:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ls_embed_1699554386\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/2091222\/events\/6296171\/videos\/134973699\/player?width=640&#038;height=360&#038;enableInfo=true&#038;defaultDrawer=&#038;autoPlay=true&#038;mute=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-embed_id=\"ls_embed_1699554386\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/assets\/plugins\/referrer_tracking.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/02\/this-i-believe-co-creator-to-offer-2016-convocation-address\/\">2016 Convocation speaker is Dan Gediman<\/a>, co-editor of <em>This I Believe<\/em>, a book series that offers collections of personal philosophies of Americans, from the famous to the unknown. Based on the radio series with the same title, <em>This I Believe<\/em> is the Common Reading for the Class of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Gediman, a longtime producer for public radio shows such as <i>All Things Considered<\/i>, <i>Morning Edition<\/i>, <i>Marketplace<\/i>, and <i>This American Life<\/i>, will be joined by fellow speakers President Clayton Spencer, Student Government President Adedire Fakorede \u201918 of Newark, N.J., and Multifaith Chaplain Brittany Longsdorf.<\/p>\n<p>Convocation begins with the traditional academic procession to the Historic Quad, followed by the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/26\/here-comes-the-class-of-2020-bringing-the-world-to-bates\/\">the 499-member Class of 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for Convocation 2016, beginning at 11 a.m., Sept. 6.: The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":103040,"comment_status":"open","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":[12193,11012,11009],"tags":[10173],"class_list":["post-105167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livestream","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-livestream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158385,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105167\/revisions\/158385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}