{"id":6831,"date":"2016-03-22T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:22:41","slug":"levar-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/03\/22\/levar-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"LeVar Burton encourages the next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Actor, director, writer, producer, and educator LeVar Burton\u2014best known for his roles in \u201cRoots,\u201d \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation,\u201d\u00a0and \u201cReading Rainbow\u201d\u2014inspired prospective students to make positive change in the world.\u00a0Burton\u2019s presentation took place this winter during Scholarship Weekend, an annual event where prospective students compete\u00a0for the President\u2019s and Fine Arts scholarships.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">WEB EXTRA: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/FA7JY3\">See photos<\/a> from LeVar Burton&#8217;s visit to campus.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"160213 L Burton 014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/augsburgcollege\/25983990026\/in\/album-72157666328876915\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1624\/25983990026_c1beb04035.jpg\" alt=\"160213 L Burton 014\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor, director, writer, producer, and educator LeVar Burton\u2014best known for his roles in \u201cRoots,\u201d \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation,\u201d and \u201cReading Rainbow\u201d\u2014inspired prospective students to make positive change in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"Scholarship Weekend welcomes future students","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}