{"id":351,"date":"2018-04-04T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/?p=351"},"modified":"2018-04-04T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:05:39","slug":"the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had just gotten home from dinner at my future in-laws&#8217; house and I noticed I had a voicemail on my phone. I must have missed it during the dinner. When I clicked on the voicemail, my phone informed me that the caller was from Boston. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone in Boston,&#8221; I said to myself. Then as I listened to the voicemail and heard Don&#8217;s voice everything came together. I felt obligated to return Don&#8217;s call and over the next week we played phone tag, only to eventually have him leave me a final message saying &#8220;Dave, no need to call me back. You&#8217;re in!&#8221; I remember the night of that call so vividly because it changed my life in so many amazing ways. I didn&#8217;t take as many courses with Don as some of the other students, but I took enough to understand just how amazing a teacher he was. LGO certainly won&#8217;t be the same without him, but I take some solace in knowing that his memory and values will live on in all of his students who passed through the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just gotten home from dinner at my future in-laws&#8217; house and I noticed I had a voicemail on my phone. I must have missed it during the dinner. When I clicked on the voicemail, my phone informed me that the caller was from Boston. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone in Boston,&#8221; I said to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/the-call\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Call&#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\/351"}],"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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}