{"id":5400,"date":"2008-03-13T20:23:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2008-03-13T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T20:23:04","slug":"a-loss-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5400","title":{"rendered":"a loss for service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Nelda Brown at the National Service Learning Partnership earlier today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/110-h5563\/show\">GIVE Act<\/a> (H.R. 5563), which would have updated and reauthorized the national service programs, including Learn and Serve America&#8211;the only federal program dedicated to supporting service-learning in local schools and communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The vote was 277 in favor and 140 against, but passage required a two-thirds majority because of the parliamentary situation. It was tantalizingly close and a real blow to lose this bipartisan bill that would have supported positive, civic opportunities for our young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nelda Brown at the National Service Learning Partnership earlier today: The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass the GIVE Act (H.R. 5563), which would have updated and reauthorized the national service programs, including Learn and Serve America&#8211;the only federal program dedicated to supporting service-learning in local schools and communities. The vote was 277 [&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-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}