{"id":1213,"date":"2006-05-16T23:05:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T23:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2006-05-16T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T23:05:54","slug":"rise_to_power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Rise To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m writing this entry much later than usual because I was co-teaching a Civics class and then went out for drinks with some of the students afterwards.  I don’t think I’ve written much about my involvement with Civics Connection<\/A>.  We’re a small organization that promotes “active citizenship”–building a person’s capacity to be an effective leader in the places where they are invested (work, community, etc.).  We offer a ten-week educational seminar in the fall and spring to young professionals in their 20s and 30s.  I was a student last year and then I ended up on the Board of Directors.  A few weeks ago, I was elected Board Chair.  Now I can check off Step #3(b) in my plan to achieve total world domination. <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m writing this entry much later than usual because I was co-teaching a Civics class and then went out for drinks with some of the students afterwards.  I don’t think I’ve written much about my involvement with Civics Connection.  We’re a small organization that promotes “active citizenship”–building a person’s capacity to be an effective leader […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}