{"id":2225,"date":"2012-09-10T19:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2012-09-10T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T23:25:11","slug":"speakers-fund-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/speakers-fund-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers fund at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Thanks to the Distinguished Speakers Fund, endowed by a generous alumna and her husband, Hollins will welcome best-selling author Ann Patchett and political analyst Cokie Roberts to campus this academic year.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2285\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?attachment_id=2285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2285 alignleft\" title=\"Ann Patchett\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/patchett1.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Patchett\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Patchett, the author of New York Times bestsellers <em>State of Wonder<\/em> and <em>Bel Canto<\/em>, will speak on September 11. <em>State of Wonder<\/em> is this year\u2019s common reading for first-year students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2229\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?attachment_id=2229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2229 alignright\" title=\"Cokie Roberts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/roberts_240.jpg\" alt=\"Cokie Roberts\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Roberts, NPR senior news analyst and political commentator for ABC News, will speak on January 29. Both lectures are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The endowment was established in 2001 to provide substantial funding to bring at least one major speaker to campus each year. For more information on the 2012-13 speakers, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\">www.hollins.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ann Patchett photo by Melissa Ann Pinney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patchett, the author of New York Times bestsellers <em>State of Wonder<\/em> and <em>Bel Canto<\/em>, will speak on September 11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giving","tag-summer-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}