{"id":5530,"date":"2008-09-24T07:09:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:09:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:09:26","slug":"the-democracy-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5530","title":{"rendered":"The Democracy Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(en route from Washington to Bates College in Maine, via Boston). I&#8217;m on a sort of a road trip with not much time in front of computers for blogging. Instead I would like briefly to advertise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/democracy\/\">The Democracy Imperative<\/a>, whose website is now full of useful and current material. TDI fills an important niche: deliberative democracy in colleges and universities. It&#8217;s not only a gathering of college professors and administrators who use deliberation in their own classrooms and dorms, but also a place to think about deliberation in the <em>governance <\/em>of colleges and about true dialog between colleges and their communities. Membership is free; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/democracy\/join.cfm\">here&#8217;s where you join<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(en route from Washington to Bates College in Maine, via Boston). I&#8217;m on a sort of a road trip with not much time in front of computers for blogging. Instead I would like briefly to advertise The Democracy Imperative, whose website is now full of useful and current material. TDI fills an important niche: deliberative [&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-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}