{"id":2075,"date":"2009-02-05T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T19:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:00","slug":"steve-hoad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/05\/steve-hoad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Farmer&#039;s Father: Steve Hoad &#039;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/hoad25201.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/hoad25201-400x284.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Steve Hoad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blind from birth, Steve Hoad was raised by a mother who \u201cunderstood that children were children,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was expected that I would do things children do.\u201d His outdoors experiences as a child and a desire to conserve land solidified Hoad\u2019s dream to one day live with his family on a farm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x187097.xml\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blind from birth, Steve Hoad was raised by a mother who \u201cunderstood that children were children,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was expected that I would do things children do.\u201d His outdoors experiences as a child and a desire to conserve land solidified Hoad\u2019s dream to one day live with his family on a farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7,8,232,32],"tags":[664,10856],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-bates-values","category-environment-sustainability","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-agriculture","tag-bates-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","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=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89051,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/89051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}