{"id":400,"date":"2004-06-04T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=400"},"modified":"2004-06-04T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T15:59:37","slug":"spring-2004-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2004 Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreyrockwell.com\/convocation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5000.JPG.200.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/IMG_5000.JPG.200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> Tuesday I went to the 2004 convocation where <a title=\"McMaster Daily - Posted on May 31: Canadian musicians Daniel Lanois and Jeff Healey among honorary degree recipients at McMaster Spring Convocation\" href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.mcmaster.ca\/story.cfm?id=2722\">Daniel Lanois<\/a> was honoured along with our third cohort of Multimedia students. Convocations are an emotional event for me &#8211; after all the marking and lecturing I can give the students a hug and feel joy for them. These rituals are not meaningless, they orient us to what has been achieved and allow us to be our best for a moment &#8211; to congratulate students rather than critique their work.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Spectator today, however, reported that the wrong Hugh Fraser got the other honorary degree at the Humanities convocation. There is a local Hugh Fraser who writes on music for the Hamilton Spectator. Hmmm could the committee have not indicated which Fraser they wanted contacted? Can we take back an honorary degree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday I went to the 2004 convocation where Daniel Lanois was honoured along with our third cohort of Multimedia students. Convocations are an emotional event for me &#8211; after all the marking and lecturing I can give the students a hug and feel joy for them. These rituals are not meaningless, they orient us to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring 2004 Convocation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}