{"id":8281,"date":"2018-03-19T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2018-03-22T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:56:26","slug":"close-up-george-j-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/2018\/03\/19\/close-up-george-j-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Up: George J. Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/federal\/files\/2018\/03\/resized-18-1153-MITCHELL-001.jpg\" alt=\"resized-18-1153-MITCHELL-001\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/files\/2018\/03\/resized-18-1153-MITCHELL-001.jpg 995w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/files\/2018\/03\/resized-18-1153-MITCHELL-001-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/files\/2018\/03\/resized-18-1153-MITCHELL-001-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>George J. Mitchell, former US senator from Maine, 1980-95, Senate Majority Leader, 1989-95, and US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, 2009-11, delivered the annual Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture March 14 at the LAW auditorium. &#8220;I was\u2026proud\u2026to call him a friend,&#8221; he said of Rabin. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM&#8217;19).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George J. Mitchell, former US senator from Maine, 1980-95, Senate Majority Leader, 1989-95, and US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, 2009-11, delivered the annual Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture March 14 at the LAW auditorium. &#8220;I was\u2026proud\u2026to call him a friend,&#8221; he said of Rabin. Photo by Maddie Malhotra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[96,13,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}