{"id":5701,"date":"2008-08-14T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorebates.wordpress.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:20","slug":"my-first-days-with-the-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/08\/14\/my-first-days-with-the-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"My first days with The Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/brotherphillips.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/dsc058211.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/brotherphillips.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/dsc058211.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>From Anthony: <\/em>On Saturday May 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2008, I eagerly arrived for my first day with The Institute for Responsible Citizenship. I entered the Institute with very high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>I had been anticipating this moment since my junior year in high school, when a mentor of mine prematurely introduced me to the program and encouraged me to apply. Since then, I have anxiously awaited the opportunity to join the program. Within the first few days, I knew I was a part of the right program. <a href=\"http:\/\/brotherphillips.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/14\/my-first-days-with-the-institute\/\">[More&#8230;]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday May 31st, 2008, I eagerly arrived for my first day with The Institute for Responsible Citizenship. I entered the Institute with very high expectations.<\/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":[130,234],"tags":[3117,3906,11001],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-teaching-education","tag-economics","tag-government","tag-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62634,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/62634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}