{"id":31663,"date":"2010-08-04T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=31663"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:48","slug":"st-petersburg-times-describes-love-and-adventure-for-ward-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/08\/04\/st-petersburg-times-describes-love-and-adventure-for-ward-03\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Times describes love and adventure for Ward &#039;03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- google_ad_section_start -->An installment of the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em> series &#8220;Heart Beat&#8221; describes what brought newlyweds Suzanne Eldridge &#8217;03 and Carlton Ward Jr. together. &#8220;They both saw the Big Picture,&#8221; writes reporter Amy Scherzer, &#8220;from the  fragility of the  ecosystem to the frailty of humanity.&#8221; Ward is a wildlife photographer whose work supports nature conservancy projects. Eldridge is a law student who helped start two nonprofits that focus on  emotional health issues in young women. She&#8217;s now managing director of the University  of South Florida Hope House for Eating Disorders. &#8220;A mutual  friend introduced them,&#8221; Scherzer writes. &#8220;Click! Ward  zoomed  in, capturing Eldridge&#8217;s heart.&#8221; He proposed on a Thai beach on the island of Phuket. &#8220;I turned to my right and  he&#8217;s in a foot of water, on his knee,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I still  can&#8217;t stop smiling.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/humaninterest\/carlton-ward-jr-weds-suzie-eldridge-after-adventurous-engagement\/1110237\">View story from the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em>, July 21, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An installment of the St. Petersburg Times series &#8220;Heart Beat&#8221; describes what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"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":[7,224,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-31663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663","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=31663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663\/revisions\/93365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}