{"id":5269,"date":"2007-08-06T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2007-08-06T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T09:37:16","slug":"getting-them-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;getting them involved&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hill wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/ideas\/bal-id.qampa05aug05,0,6452645.story\">profile of me<\/a> in Sunday&#8217;s Baltimore <em>Sun<\/em>. He gave me quite a lot of space to talk about my usual obsessions: public participation, civil society, youth, and so on. His biographical sketch probably makes my life seem more coherent and &#8220;purpose-driven&#8221; than it has actually been&#8211;but I guess I led him to that. Hill is an interesting reporter, in any case, who has written several previous pieces about the public&#8217;s role in politics in which he quotes Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg (authors of <em>Downsizing Democracy<\/em>), Harry Boyte, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hill wrote a profile of me in Sunday&#8217;s Baltimore Sun. He gave me quite a lot of space to talk about my usual obsessions: public participation, civil society, youth, and so on. His biographical sketch probably makes my life seem more coherent and &#8220;purpose-driven&#8221; than it has actually been&#8211;but I guess I led him [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}