{"id":68426,"date":"2013-09-05T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=68426"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:16:24","slug":"video-convocation-2013-featuring-president-spencers-address-some-thoughts-on-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/05\/video-convocation-2013-featuring-president-spencers-address-some-thoughts-on-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Convocation 2013 featuring President Spencer&#8217;s address, &#8216;Some Thoughts on Work&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>View the complete video of Convocation 2013 below, including the Convocation Address, \u201cSome Thoughts on Work,\u201d by President Clayton Spencer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Convocation, celebrating the opening of the academic year at Bates College, took place at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, in Alumni Gymnasium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button large-button large-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/live\/convocation-2013]Watch\">Watch here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View the complete video of Convocation 2013, including the Convocation Address, \u201cSome Thoughts on Work,\u201d by President Clayton Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":68427,"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":[11009],"tags":[2579],"class_list":["post-68426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-college","tag-convocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68426","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=68426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171861,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68426\/revisions\/171861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}