{"id":1188,"date":"2012-04-19T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-04-19T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:57:32","slug":"gov-mitt-romney-to-deliver-2012-commencement-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Mitt Romney to deliver 2012 Commencement address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liberty.edu\/media\/1617\/2012\/april2012\/Romney.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"330\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced today that Gov. Mitt Romney will address Liberty University graduates at the 2012 Commencement ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, at Arthur L. Williams Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that Governor Romney will join us to celebrate Commencement with Liberty\u2019s 2012 graduates,&#8221; said Liberty Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. &#8220;This will be a historic event for Liberty University reminiscent of the visits of Governor, and then presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan to Liberty\u2019s campus in 1980 and of President George H.W. Bush who spoke at Liberty\u2019s 1990 Commencement ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be Governor Romney\u2019s first appearance at Liberty University.\u00a0Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. will also be making remarks during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty University&#8217;s 39th Commencement will celebrate the achievement of more than 14,000 graduates with more than 34,000 guests expected to attend. The ceremony will also be broadcast by streaming video to the families of Liberty\u2019s 70,000+ online students around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty.edu\/index.cfm?PID=18495&#038;MID=53438\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced today that Gov. Mitt Romney will address Liberty University graduates at the 2012 Commencement ceremony to be held at 10&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1188\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gov. Mitt Romney to deliver 2012 Commencement address<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Romney.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-ja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}