{"id":99350,"date":"2016-02-12T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=99350"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:48:59","slug":"video-mike-bonney-80-on-how-19-million-in-gifts-shines-two-spotlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/12\/video-mike-bonney-80-on-how-19-million-in-gifts-shines-two-spotlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: $19 million in gifts shine two spotlights, says Michael Bonney &#8217;80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New gifts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/08\/19-million-gift-commitments\/\">$19 million to Bates<\/a> shine a spotlight on two great Bates qualities, says Michael Bonney &#8217;80, chair of the Bates Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>The gifts, from seven Bates families, will endow six new professorships and launch a new Program in Digital and Computational Studies. Bonney and his wife, Alison Grott Bonney &#8217;80, contributed $10 million.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Bonney &#039;80 and $19 million in gifts to Bates\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVmBRteNsW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bonney &#8217;80 talks about how new Bates gifts of $19 million are shining spotlights on two great Bates qualities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":99354,"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":[8840,11069,3259,5903,10910,11339],"class_list":["post-99350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-college","tag-bates-board-of-trustees","tag-digital-and-computational-studies","tag-endowment","tag-michael-bonney","tag-philanthropy","tag-the-bates-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99350","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=99350"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99388,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99350\/revisions\/99388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}