{"id":102234,"date":"2016-06-24T11:50:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=102234"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:43:11","slug":"senior-address-at-commencement-together-we-harness-the-power-of-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/24\/senior-address-at-commencement-together-we-harness-the-power-of-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Together we harness the power of questions&#8217; \u2014 Senior Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Griffin &#8217;16, a Chinese and psychology major from Philadelphia, gave this year&#8217;s Senior Address at Commencement and offered hopeful words about the value and power of a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ education:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Together we harness the power of questions; we ask questions that lead to creative problem solving, shift perspectives, create conversation, build leadership, establish empathy and catalyze action&#8230;. Thank you, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for a wholesome education where we do not fear tomorrow or our greatness, but strive to delve into it with heartfelt participation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Senior Address\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yq3VGB7m874?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Griffin &#8217;16, a Chinese and psychology major from Philadelphia, gave this year&#8217;s Senior Address at Commencement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":102235,"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":[4,11009],"tags":[10831,11162,11184],"class_list":["post-102234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-the-college","tag-commencement","tag-commencement-2016","tag-shannon-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102234","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=102234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102241,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102234\/revisions\/102241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}