{"id":1268,"date":"2010-03-17T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2014-05-14T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:42:18","slug":"eric-holder-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2010\/03\/17\/eric-holder-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, delivers the University\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/explore-the-archives\/archives-2010\/\">137th Commencement address<\/a>. The nation&#8217;s top cop saluted the progress the country has made in areas such as race relations as he received an honorary Doctor of Laws, invoking both his status as the nation&#8217;s first African-American attorney general and the fact that the country and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have black chief executives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cToday\u2019s challenges spur tomorrow\u2019s hope.\u201d <em>\u2014 Eric Holder<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, delivers the University\u2019s 137th Commencement address. The nation&#8217;s top cop saluted the progress the country has made in areas such as race relations as he received an honorary Doctor of Laws, invoking both his status as the nation&#8217;s first African-American attorney general and the fact [&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\/1268"}],"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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}