{"id":33194,"date":"2004-02-13T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33194"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:37:23","slug":"david-weber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/02\/13\/david-weber\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips Exeter coach to share spiritual insights at Bates College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Weber, English faculty member and cross-country track coach at  Phillips Exeter Academy, will share spiritual truths discovered during three  decades of coaching and teaching in his talk, <em>Coaching  the Heart: Coaching, Teaching, Writing and the Spiritual Path<\/em> at 4:30  p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited free of charge to attend this  presentation, part of the series &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the  Soul 2003-04,&#8221; sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. Call  207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Weber\u2014a teacher and coach first, an activist second\u2014claims that his  best work has been accomplished by helping his teenage students to  believe in the reality and value of their own stories, whether in the  classroom or on the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>In his coaching, Weber aims to ground the physical requirements of  competitive distance running in a broader celebration of sports. His  activism involves environmental issues and those linked to the cultural  debates about sexual orientation. In his essays and poems, he tries to  find a hedge against the loss of memory and to speak as he would aloud  to a friendly listener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Weber, English faculty member and cross-country track coach at Phillips Exeter Academy, will share spiritual truths discovered during three decades of coaching and teaching in his talk, &#8220;Coaching the Heart: Coaching, Teaching, Writing and the Spiritual Path&#8221; at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue.<\/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":[39,234],"tags":[11648,8087],"class_list":["post-33194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-teaching-education","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194","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=33194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92892,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194\/revisions\/92892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}