{"id":1081,"date":"2002-03-10T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2002-03-10T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2014-05-14T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T17:27:53","slug":"jon-westling-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2002\/03\/10\/jon-westling-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Westling Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU President Jon Westling tells the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/explore-the-archives\/archives-2002\/\">Class of 2002<\/a> to build on the nation&#8217;s democratic institutions in his Commencement speech.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you want to continue to live in a free and tolerant society, you will have to do a lot more than praise the idea of diversity.&#8221;<em>\u2014Jon Westling <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU President Jon Westling tells the Class of 2002 to build on the nation&#8217;s democratic institutions in his Commencement speech. &#8220;If you want to continue to live in a free and tolerant society, you will have to do a lot more than praise the idea of diversity.&#8221;\u2014Jon Westling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}