{"id":37258,"date":"2025-03-28T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/kermit-the-frog-tapped-as-university-of-maryland-commencement-speaker\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:28:43","slug":"kermit-the-frog-tapped-as-university-of-maryland-commencement-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/kermit-the-frog-tapped-as-university-of-maryland-commencement-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kermit the Frog tapped as University of Maryland commencement speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018World\u2019s most famous amphibian\u2019 set to deliver address at Muppets creator Jim Henson\u2019s alma mater in College Park<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jul\/29\/kermit-the-frog-im-a-fan-of-friday-night-lights\">Kermit the Frog<\/a> once sang \u201cit\u2019s not easy being green\u201d \u2013 and now he gets to see how easy it is to impart wise words to graduating college students in these times.<\/p>\n<p>The university announced this week that it had chosen the fictional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/the-muppets\">Muppets<\/a> star and so-called \u201cworld\u2019s most famous amphibian\u201d to deliver its commencement speech on 21 May at University of Maryland\u2019s SECU Stadium in College Park.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/28\/kermit-the-frog-university-of-maryland-commencement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018World\u2019s most famous amphibian\u2019 set to deliver address at Muppets creator Jim Henson\u2019s alma mater in College Park Kermit the Frog once sang \u201cit\u2019s not easy being green\u201d \u2013 and now he gets to see how easy it is to impart wise words to graduating college students in these times. The university announced this week &#8230; <a title=\"Kermit the Frog tapped as University of Maryland commencement speaker\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/kermit-the-frog-tapped-as-university-of-maryland-commencement-speaker\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kermit the Frog tapped as University of Maryland commencement speaker\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}