{"id":1105,"date":"2003-03-10T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2014-05-14T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T15:06:06","slug":"george-f-will-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2003\/03\/10\/george-f-will-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"George F. Will Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George F. Will delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cToday the principle that individuals should be judged on their individual merits, not on their membership in this or that group, is still under attack. The attack is against a core principle of an open society\u2014the principle of careers open to talents. Today there are pernicious new arguments for treating certain groups of Americans as incapable of doing what Sam Lacy knew Jackie Robinson could do: compete.&#8221;<em>\u2014George F. Will<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George F. Will delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement. \u201cToday the principle that individuals should be judged on their individual merits, not on their membership in this or that group, is still under attack. The attack is against a core principle of an open society\u2014the principle of careers open to talents. Today there are pernicious [&hellip;]<\/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\/1105"}],"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=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}