{"id":433,"date":"2013-06-01T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T08:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:58:15","slug":"grinnell-college-commencement-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/grinnell-college-commencement-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Grinnell College Commencement 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a title=\"Sarah Kay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaysarahsera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Kay<\/a>, a spoken word poet, was this year&#8217;s Grinnell College Commencement speaker. Talking about mentors, she makes a reference to my recent ordeal in Qatar, how the Grinnell Community came together to help secure my freedom and what I have decided to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Grinnell College Commencement 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grinnell.edu\/news\/features\/commencement-2013\" target=\"-blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> or on the image below to watch a recording of the address. The reference starts at about the 1:07:12 min mark (as shown below on the screen grab). Her own address starts at the 52:40 min mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Grinnell-College-Commencement-May-20-1013.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Grinnell-College-Commencement-May-20-1013.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Grinnell-College-Commencement-May-20-1013.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Grinnell-College-Commencement-May-20-1013-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fig. 1. Grinnell College Commencement May 20 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">* * * * * * * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">March 29, 2014 Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Just discovered that the page the link above takes you to, doesn&#8217;t contain the video anymore!! Here&#8217;s a replacement instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ESTlKxZRMNU\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Kay, a spoken word poet, was this year&#8217;s Grinnell College Commencement speaker. Talking about mentors, she makes a reference to my recent ordeal in Qatar, how the Grinnell Community came together to help secure my freedom and what I have decided to do. Click here or on the image below to watch a recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[626,58,144],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-grinnell-college","tag-grinnell-commencement","tag-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Grinnell-College-Commencement-May-20-1013-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-6Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}