{"id":2258,"date":"2021-05-31T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2021-07-06T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:10:09","slug":"commencement-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2021\/05\/31\/commencement-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/bu-commencement-2021-sights-sounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">148th Commencement<\/a>\u00a0was unique but a great success. Because of the need for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, two separate ceremonies were held: one for advanced degree graduates in the morning, one for graduating seniors in the afternoon. There was no procession or family and friends allowed in the stands, but both ceremonies were livestreamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s 148th Commencement\u00a0was unique but a great success. Because of the need for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, two separate ceremonies were held: one for advanced degree graduates in the morning, one for graduating seniors in the afternoon. There was no procession or family and friends allowed in the stands, but both ceremonies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"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\/14430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}