{"id":108280,"date":"2017-06-14T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=108280"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:25:06","slug":"video-alumni-parade-reunion-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/14\/video-alumni-parade-reunion-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Alumni Parade is about &#8216;jumping right back into Bates&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old or young, Bates alumni turn back the clocks when they return to campus for Reunion and the Alumni Parade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is surreal,&#8221; said Ben Hughes \u201912. &#8220;We&#8217;re all jumping right back into Bates, like five years didn&#8217;t happen. And I imagine that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s like for the Class of 1957.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had this moment when I was walking from Rand to the Den,&#8221; said Carine Warsawski \u201907. &#8220;The Quad was completely empty and it smelled like springtime at Bates. You just knew your people were waiting for you, and you had the feeling of being home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some people that I didn&#8217;t really know that well in my class, but when you see them here, you&#8217;re right back at Bates,&#8221; said Alan Ansello \u201967.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reunion 2017 at Bates College\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/221624258?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is surreal,&#8221; said Ben Hughes \u201912, &#8220;like five years didn&#8217;t happen. And I imagine that&#8217;s the way the Class of 1957 feels, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":108284,"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":[7],"tags":[10445,11373],"class_list":["post-108280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni-parade","tag-reunion-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108280","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108290,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108280\/revisions\/108290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}