{"id":90975,"date":"2017-02-23T23:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90975"},"modified":"2017-02-23T23:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T04:56:48","slug":"oprah-winfrey-to-speak-at-upstate-ny-college-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/23\/oprah-winfrey-to-speak-at-upstate-ny-college-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey to speak at upstate NY college commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90976\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1656189_10152771899752220_5793055305271646768_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90976\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1656189_10152771899752220_5793055305271646768_n.jpg\" alt=\"Oprah Winfrey will be a speaker at the graduation ceremony for an upstate New York college that some graduates of her South African school attended. (Photo: Oprah Winfrey\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1656189_10152771899752220_5793055305271646768_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1656189_10152771899752220_5793055305271646768_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1656189_10152771899752220_5793055305271646768_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1656189_10152771899752220_5793055305271646768_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oprah Winfrey will be a speaker at the graduation ceremony for an upstate New York college that some graduates of her South African school attended. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oprahwinfrey\/photos\/a.498154622219.272453.22433917219\/10152771899752220\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Oprah Winfrey\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.\u2014Oprah Winfrey will be a speaker at the graduation ceremony for an upstate New York college that some graduates of her South African school attended.<\/p>\n<p>The Skidmore College website says the author, actress and former talk show host will be a speaker at the May 20 commencement at Saratoga Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey will receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters in the Arts from the private liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, 165 miles north of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, a boarding school for underprivileged South African girls, opened outside Johannesburg in 2007. Several graduates of the school have attended Skidmore.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey was at Skidmore in October 2013 to visit two of her South African school&#8217;s graduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.\u2014Oprah Winfrey will be a speaker at the graduation ceremony for an upstate New York college that some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[604,2,106],"tags":[1135],"class_list":["post-90975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-education","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-oprah-winfrey","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}