{"id":2979,"date":"2009-03-15T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:43","slug":"george-e-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/15\/george-e-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"George E. Stewart made East Hartford a better place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/45556538.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/45556538-257x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"GEORGE E. STEWART\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Hartford Courant<\/em> published a feature obituary for George Stewart &#8217;46, a resident of East Hartford who died Feb. 22. The story noted that Stewart was &#8220;an active volunteer in community organizations and president of a local bank [who] seemed to know everyone and over the decades had been involved in nearly every town activity.&#8221; Tom Heslin, a friend and editor of the <em>Providence Journal<\/em>, said, &#8221;You can go to the places he made better. He didn&#8217;t do it for ambition; it was his nature. He was born to make the world a better place.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/features\/lifestyle\/hc-exlife0315.artmar15,0,5652500.story\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hartford Courant published a feature obituary for George Stewart &#8217;46, a resident of East Hartford who died Feb. 22. The story noted that Stewart was &#8220;an active volunteer in community organizations and president of a local bank [who] seemed to know everyone and over the decades had been involved in nearly every town activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_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":[7,220,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","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=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88879,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/88879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}