{"id":2156,"date":"2008-06-11T17:40:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2008-06-11T17:40:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:40:45","slug":"convocation-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Convocation 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chancellors.jpg' title='Photo of the Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chair'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chancellors.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Photo of the Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chair' align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\"\/><\/a> Monday we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffreyrockwell\/sets\/72157605552189605\/\">convocation (and I took pictures.)<\/a> I was right behind the Chancellor&#8217;s chair. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0576548\/\">Deepa Mehta<\/a> was the speaker and she talked about multiculturalism in Canada. She talked mostly about how she is treated by customs and immigration every time she comes back to Canada (she gets pulled aside and questioned). <\/p>\n<p>This was my last convocation at Mac &#8211; the last round of students. Like every year, I was blessed with exceptional students. It was good to see them one last time in their moment of celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday we had convocation (and I took pictures.) I was right behind the Chancellor&#8217;s chair. Deepa Mehta was the speaker and she talked about multiculturalism in Canada. She talked mostly about how she is treated by customs and immigration every time she comes back to Canada (she gets pulled aside and questioned). This was my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convocation 2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}