{"id":7393,"date":"2011-06-06T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:46:35","slug":"hank-aaron-gets-honorary-princeton-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"Hank Aaron Gets Honorary Princeton Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRINCETON, New Jersey &#8211; Baseball Hall of Famer<strong> Hank Aaron<\/strong> can add an honorary degree from Princeton University to his trophy case.<\/p>\n<p>The former home run record-holder was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities for making America a better place with his &#8220;imperishable example of grace under pressure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university cited how he kept his cool while pursuing <strong>Babe Ruth&#8217;s <\/strong>home run record nearly 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton keeps its list of honorary degree recipients secret until the commencement ceremony. University President <strong>Shirley Tilghman<\/strong> gave the address, as she usually does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Former home run record-holder and Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron waves during commencement for the class of 2011. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRINCETON, New Jersey &#8211; Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron can add an honorary degree from Princeton University to his trophy case. The former home run record-holder was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities for making America a better place with his &#8220;imperishable example of grace under pressure.&#8221; The university cited how he kept his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}