{"id":30236,"date":"2023-09-15T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30236"},"modified":"2023-09-15T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:31:15","slug":"visiting-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30236","title":{"rendered":"visiting Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m briefly in Prague for a valuable symposium on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ih21.org\/en\/symposium\">Democracy in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century: Challenges for an Open Society<\/a>&#8221; organized by the Czech political research and reform group called Institute H21. I will share substantive ideas from the conversation when I&#8217;m home. In lieu of new comments about this beautiful city, I&#8217;ll share a link to an <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5493\">introduction<\/a> I wrote during a longer visit here in 2008. Sometimes, I find my own writing from that long ago cringe-worthy, but I think this mini-essay about how to &#8220;read&#8221; the city of Prague holds up OK and may have some value for other visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m briefly in Prague for a valuable symposium on &#8220;Democracy in the 21st\u00a0Century: Challenges for an Open Society&#8221; organized by the Czech political research and reform group called Institute H21. I will share substantive ideas from the conversation when I&#8217;m home. In lieu of new comments about this beautiful city, I&#8217;ll share a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cities","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236","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=30236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30240,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236\/revisions\/30240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}