{"id":4230,"date":"2003-06-26T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2003-06-26T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2003-06-26T15:11:33","slug":"ceos-for-americorps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4230","title":{"rendered":"CEOs for Americorps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m one of about 200 people&#151;mostly<\/p>\n<p>corporate executives&#151;who signed an open letter to President Bush that&#8217;s printed<\/p>\n<p>as a full-page ad in today&#8217;s <i>New York Times<\/i>. It reads, in part: &quot;AmeriCorps<\/p>\n<p>programs are closing. Young people who want to serve their country are being turned<\/p>\n<p>away. Communities, schools and children are losing their AmeriCorps mentors, tutors,<\/p>\n<p>teachers and builders . . . Please save these essential AmeriCorps programs that<\/p>\n<p>have done so much good for our communities.&quot; (I can&#8217;t find a link to the<\/p>\n<p><i>Times<\/i> ad, but the <i>Washington Post<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A33629-2003Jun25.html?nav=hptoc_p\">a<\/p>\n<p>story about it<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m one of about 200 people&#151;mostly corporate executives&#151;who signed an open letter to President Bush that&#8217;s printed as a full-page ad in today&#8217;s New York Times. It reads, in part: &quot;AmeriCorps programs are closing. Young people who want to serve their country are being turned away. Communities, schools and children are losing their AmeriCorps mentors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}