{"id":50597,"date":"2011-10-29T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=50597"},"modified":"2015-03-27T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T17:24:44","slug":"video-mitchell-keynote-open-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/29\/video-mitchell-keynote-open-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell&#8217;s keynote to &#8216;Open to the World&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50397\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/web_111027_Mitchell_Keynote_7150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50397\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-50397\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/web_111027_Mitchell_Keynote_7150-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/web_111027_Mitchell_Keynote_7150-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/web_111027_Mitchell_Keynote_7150-68x68.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Mitchell, whose Mitchell Institute provides scholarships to Maine students, greets Bates Mitchell Scholars on Oct. 27. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sharing the Chapel chancel with 15 Bates students supported in their studies by a statewide program that he founded, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell LL.D. &#8217;85 used incidents from his own life to drive home higher education&#8217;s value to both personal growth and economic success.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell addressed the Bates community Oct. 27 following the dedication ceremony of newly renovated Hedge and Roger Williams halls.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/31266044<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing the Chapel chancel with 15 Bates students supported in their studies by a statewide program that he founded, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell LL.D. &#8217;85 used incidents from his own life to drive home higher education&#8217;s value to both personal growth and economic success.<\/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,"_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":[32],"tags":[1523,6650],"class_list":["post-50597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-bates-unbounded","tag-open-to-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50597","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=50597"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76803,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50597\/revisions\/76803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}