{"id":316,"date":"2009-07-16T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=316"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:50:27","slug":"straight-no-chaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Straight, no chaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_319\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lemj-sob-exc-college2009w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lemj-sob-exc-college2009w.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lemj-sob-exc-college2009w-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excelsior College Commencement Speaker Soledad O&#8217;Brien (left) with Excelsior College graduate Lawrence E. Minor, Jr (of Delaware)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week I\u00a0attended the Excelsior College Commencement in Albany. The Commencement Speaker was Soledad O&#8217;Brien. Her speech was simple and direct, which\u00a0fits well in this current climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I\u00a0attended the Excelsior College Commencement in Albany. The Commencement Speaker was Soledad O&#8217;Brien. Her speech was simple and direct, which\u00a0fits well in this current climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[387,822,385,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22891,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/22891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}