{"id":5,"date":"2025-05-23T14:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/boston-university-common-read\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:10:58","slug":"boston-university-common-read","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the BU community in a shared Common Read experience. Now in its second year, the program invites students, faculty, and staff to read, discuss, and meaningfully engage with one another through a single book. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/about\/\">Learn more about the program<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/current-book\/get\/\">grab your copy of this year&#8217;s book<\/a> and start reading!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/common-read\/files\/2025\/08\/Common-Read-636x556.png\" alt=\"A graphic of an open book with Common Read beneath it\" width=\"190\" height=\"166\" class=\"wp-image-319 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2025\/08\/Common-Read-636x556.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2025\/08\/Common-Read.png 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the BU community in a shared Common Read experience. Now in its second year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}