{"id":19620,"date":"2018-02-20T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19620"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:43:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:43:54","slug":"talking-about-teens-and-the-2018-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19620","title":{"rendered":"talking about teens and the 2018 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While traveling to Orlando to talk about civic education, I&#8217;ll post two recent links.<\/p>\n<p>First is today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;On Point&#8221; from NPR. The guests are three teenagers who are running for governor in Kansas (which imposes no age limit on candidates)&#8211;and me. I celebrate the young politicians but try to broaden the conversation to other forms of civic engagement that can involve a lot more kids.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/587338370\/587338382\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here is a piece by me on civic education in America and specifically in Connecticut &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ctbythenumbers.info\/2018\/02\/17\/perspective-republic-still-at-risk-connecticut-edges-forward\/\">PERSPECTIVE: Republic Still at Risk; Connecticut Edges Forward<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traveling to Orlando to talk about civic education, I&#8217;ll post two recent links. First is today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;On Point&#8221; from NPR. The guests are three teenagers who are running for governor in Kansas (which imposes no age limit on candidates)&#8211;and me. I celebrate the young politicians but try to broaden the conversation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education","category-audio-and-video","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19649,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions\/19649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}