{"id":9402,"date":"2025-11-21T13:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:24:35","slug":"ben-tedx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2025\/11\/21\/ben-tedx\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Wolking (2025 REU) Gives TEDx Talk, &#8220;Why &#8216;Delusion&#8217; Isn&#8217;t Always Bad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Congratulations to Ben on his TEDx talk! Fellow REUs Kylie Bray, Nathan Cao, and Josie Tetzlaff traveled to Bates College to cheer him on from the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qd2kehryWuk?si=2oiOoTv66Wo-xTnf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ben on his TEDx talk! Fellow REUs Kylie Bray, Nathan Cao, and Josie Tetzlaff traveled to Bates College to cheer him on from the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9406,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}