{"id":885,"date":"2019-01-13T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/?p=885"},"modified":"2019-01-13T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T12:53:58","slug":"pretani-associates-president-michael-d-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/news\/pretani-associates-president-michael-d-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretani Associates \u2013 President Michael D Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have heard with great sadness of the passing of Dr. Ian Adamson, former MLA for<br \/>\nBelfast, former Lord Mayor of Belfast, respected scholar and supporter of countless<br \/>\norganisations that served to celebrate and protect our common heritage.<br \/>\nDr. Adamson never ceased to remind us that we are all but migrants in time and his<br \/>\nscholarship highlighted our shared history, shared identities, shared vulnerabilities<br \/>\nand migratory roots.<br \/>\nHis legacy consists not only of his academic work but also of his calls to courage and<br \/>\nhis practical solidarity with those most vulnerable. He consistently pointed to<br \/>\neducation as a key tool to overcome fear of the unknown and fear of the other.<br \/>\nTo those who had the pleasure of knowing him it was a privilege to call Ian Adamson<br \/>\nfriend.\u00a0 I will always be grateful for his visits to \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in, our meetings in<br \/>\nBelfast and elsewhere.\u00a0 His ethic of friendship was deep, and his support for dialogue<br \/>\nover the past number of years \u2013 between communities, scholars, especially historians<br \/>\nand linguistic scholars \u2013 was generous and unlimited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-883\" src=\"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1936.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1936-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1936-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have heard with great sadness of the passing of Dr. Ian Adamson, former MLA for Belfast, former Lord Mayor of Belfast, respected scholar and supporter of countless organisations that served to celebrate and protect our common heritage. Dr. Adamson never ceased to remind us that we are all but migrants in time and his [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretani.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}