{"id":348,"date":"2018-03-31T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/?p=348"},"modified":"2018-03-31T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T03:05:10","slug":"don-had-a-special-place-for-each-one-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/don-had-a-special-place-for-each-one-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Don had a special place for each one of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2013 when I arrived in Cambridge for the alum reunion it had been a few years since I had seen Don. Coming from the airport I was arriving a bit late and the panel discussion regarding the origins of the Leaders For Manufacturing program had already started in E51-115. I decided to sneak in through the small door at the back of the very packed auditorium. I went up the stairs and gently opened the door just enough to slide in. Don was speaking but the movement caught his eye, he looked up and without hesitation said &#8216;Brian, great to see you, welcome&#8217; and resumed whatever he had been saying. It could have been me or any one of us thousand alums, Don had a place for each one of us. He committed himself heart and soul to a vision he cared deeply about and he will always be an inspiration for a life well lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2013 when I arrived in Cambridge for the alum reunion it had been a few years since I had seen Don. Coming from the airport I was arriving a bit late and the panel discussion regarding the origins of the Leaders For Manufacturing program had already started in E51-115. I decided to sneak &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/don-had-a-special-place-for-each-one-of-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don had a special place for each one of us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}