{"id":11825,"date":"2009-08-27T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:27:49","slug":"from-boston-to-bangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/08\/27\/from-boston-to-bangor\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Cable News talks to politics professor John Baughman about Kennedy&#039;s last Maine visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Cable News focuses on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy&#8217;s last visit to Maine, in February 2008, to campaign for Barack Obama. At about the 45-second mark, reporter Marnie MacLean talks to John Baughman, associate professor of politics, who recalls Kennedy&#8217;s speech in the Bates Chapel. &#8220;If you&#8217;ve seen a Ted Kennedy stemwinder, there&#8217;s no duplicate. No matter the crowd, no matter how young or old, no matter the background, they see the passion that he brings to those speeches. What he did [at Bates] was communicate in a very concrete way, as only he can, why fundamental principles, in his view, were at stake.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/Boston\/Politics\/2009\/08\/27\/From-Boston-to-Bangor-many\/1251409145.html\">(View Clip and Text)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Cable News focuses on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy&#8217;s last visit to Maine, in February 2008, to campaign for Barack Obama. At about the 45-second mark, reporter Marnie MacLean talks to John Baughman, associate professor of politics, who recalls Kennedy&#8217;s speech in the Bates Chapel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"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":[195,11009],"tags":[11051,1312],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-gomes-chapel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93318,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/93318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}