{"id":16047,"date":"2025-11-12T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=16047"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:33:02","slug":"a-conversation-with-president-maclaren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/11\/12\/a-conversation-with-president-maclaren\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with President MacLaren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16047-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/President-MacLaren-Nov-2025-1.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/President-MacLaren-Nov-2025-1.m4a\">https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/President-MacLaren-Nov-2025-1.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Megan Martin \u201927 &amp; Lauren Murray \u201927, staff writers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Megan and Lauren sit down with LVC&#8217;s 19th president, James M. MacLaren. In this episode, MacLaren discusses life before LVC, advice for students and new up-and-coming projects that will be happening on campus in the next few years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Megan Martin \u201927 &amp; Lauren Murray \u201927, staff writers Today, Megan and Lauren sit down with LVC&#8217;s 19th president, James M. MacLaren. In this episode, MacLaren discusses life before LVC, advice for students and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/11\/12\/a-conversation-with-president-maclaren\/\" title=\"A conversation with President MacLaren\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-front-page","8":"category-homepage","9":"category-podcasts-podcasts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16052,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions\/16052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}