{"id":101399,"date":"2015-09-08T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=101399"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:01:04","slug":"convocation-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/08\/convocation-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convocation took place on Tuesday, September 8 at 11 a.m.:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/2091222\/events\/4285713\/videos\/98579883\/player?autoPlay=false&#038;height=360&#038;mute=false&#038;width=640\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 2015 Convocation speaker was\u00a0Danielle Allen, author of the prizewinning 2014 study <em>Our Declaration<\/em>, a book chosen as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/common-reading\">Common Reading<\/a> for this year\u2019s incoming Class of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, a political philosopher and professor of education and government at Harvard University, gave the annual Convocation address at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, on the Historic Quad. This ceremony began the academic year and welcomed the 518 members of the Class of 2019 to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/02\/our-declaration-author-to-speak-at-convocation-2015\/\">Read more about Danielle Allen and <em>Our Declaration<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convocation took place on Tuesday, September 8 at 11 a.m.: The 2015&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":96755,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_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":[12193,11009],"tags":[10173],"class_list":["post-101399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livestream","category-the-college","tag-livestream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101399","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101402,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101399\/revisions\/101402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}