{"id":35238,"date":"2002-05-03T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2002-05-03T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=35238"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:40:45","slug":"matt-lauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/05\/03\/matt-lauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Lauer from NBC goes sky high with Lt. Cmdr. J.J. Cummings &#8217;89"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. J.J. Cummings and his wife,  Sara Hagan Cummings, both Bates &#8217;89, were interviewed March 26 and 27,  2002, when Cummings&#8217; aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt,  returned to Norfolk, Va., after an extended deployment off Afghanistan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\/\/ <\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 384px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"openpopup1()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/cummings-plane.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"180\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"openpopup2()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/lauer-and-cummings.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"180\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"openpopup1()\">Video Clip 1, March 26:<\/a> J.J. (also known as &#8220;Yank&#8221;) takes up Today Show co-anchor Matt Lauer \u2014 quickly, and steeply \u2014 from the deck of the Roosevelt.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"openpopup2()\">Video Clip 2, March 27:<\/a> Lauer continues his interview, now at the home of Sara and J.J. Lauer  takes some good-natured ribbing by J.J. about airsickness. Sara tells  Lauer he will have to ask their friends at Bates College how they wound  up together.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Click on a picture to open a Quicktime clip in a new window.<\/p>\n<p>Video clips used by permission of NBC News. Copyright 2002 NBC All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. J.J. Cummings and his wife, Sara Hagan Cummings, both Bates &#8217;89, were interviewed March 26 and 27, 2002, when Cummings&#8217; aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, returned to Norfolk, Va., after an extended deployment off Afghanistan.<\/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":[7,220],"tags":[624,9140],"class_list":["post-35238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service","tag-afghanistan","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35238","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=35238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126171,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35238\/revisions\/126171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}