{"id":376,"date":"2018-04-13T16:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/?p=376"},"modified":"2018-04-13T16:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:41:51","slug":"dons-superhuman-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/dons-superhuman-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;s superhuman power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to professors, Don was in a class of his own. Don had a\u00a0superhuman\u00a0power of helping others thrive &#8212; it went far beyond teaching and research.\u00a0He embodied all the wonderful qualities of a professor, mentor, citizen, and friend. More than any one particular instance, it was all the interactions together that made Don so special. Whether it was a serious conversation, shooting the breeze, commiserating, joking around, consulting, collaborating, sympathizing, mischief making, (occasional \ud83d\ude42 admonishing, or advice giving &#8212; Don had a gift for giving people the confidence to be themselves. I feel extremely lucky to have been one of Don&#8217;s students, and even luckier to have enjoyed his friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to professors, Don was in a class of his own. Don had a\u00a0superhuman\u00a0power of helping others thrive &#8212; it went far beyond teaching and research.\u00a0He embodied all the wonderful qualities of a professor, mentor, citizen, and friend. More than any one particular instance, it was all the interactions together that made Don &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/dons-superhuman-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;s superhuman power&#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\/376"}],"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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}