{"id":115669,"date":"2018-05-15T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=115669"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:34:11","slug":"video-emilio-valadez-18-shares-his-philosophy-of-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/video-emilio-valadez-18-shares-his-philosophy-of-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Emilio Valadez &#8217;18 and the philosophy of lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When philosophy major Emilio Valadez \u201918 of San Antonio, Texas, eats lunch at Commons, he likes to start out on a window ledge and &#8220;consider the constellation of humans\u201d spread out before him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what I really enjoy about being here,\u201d he says, \u201cis that anyone you sit with, you\u2019re going to learn something from eating with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether the conversation touches on happiness, anxiety, the profound, or the mundane, \u201cyou learn so much about yourself and who you want to be. And I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emilio Valadez | Voices from the Class of 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8RcXEdBkwts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst a &#8220;constellation of humans&#8221; in Commons at noontime, Emilio Valadez \u201918 is nourished by something greater than lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":115684,"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":[11012],"tags":[11101,6982,10834,11535],"class_list":["post-115669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","tag-commons","tag-philosophy","tag-video","tag-voices-of-the-class-of-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115669","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115669"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158332,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115669\/revisions\/158332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}