{"id":8509,"date":"2025-03-09T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2025-03-09T07:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:50:02","slug":"bradley-university-unveils-life-sized-statue-honoring-robert-h-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/2025\/03\/09\/bradley-university-unveils-life-sized-statue-honoring-robert-h-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley University Unveils Life-Sized Statue Honoring Robert H. Lawrence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Friday, February 28, Bradley University held an unveiling ceremony for a life-sized statue of Robert H. Lawrence, the first African American astronaut. Lawrence, a 1952 Bradley graduate with a Bachelor of Science, was honored with the statue, which will be displayed in the Olin Quad. The project raised $175,000, surpassing its fundraising goal by $125,000. The extra funds will be allocated to the Major Lawrence Scholarship, which supports chemistry and biochemistry majors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bradley University Unveils Life-Sized Statue Honoring Robert H. Lawrence!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jhJO_Y3k89E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 28, Bradley University held an unveiling ceremony for a life-sized statue of Robert H. Lawrence, the first African American astronaut. Lawrence, a 1952 Bradley graduate with a Bachelor of Science, was honored with the statue, which will be displayed in the Olin Quad. The project raised $175,000, surpassing its fundraising goal by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":8510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}