{"id":352,"date":"2005-09-23T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=346"},"modified":"2005-09-23T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T16:07:49","slug":"92105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"9\/21\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talked with Paul Weaver, a visiting professor at Bluffton College in Bluffton, Ohio.  He is from Worthington, Minnesota and recently coordinated the establishment of a bi-lingual, elementary school there.  The school is a mix of Hispanics and Whites, with a twist:   Hispanics youth learn English &#8212; and the White youth learn Spanish.  In addition, each group learns about the other group&#8217;s culture, and so on.  The intent is to promote more diversity, and more understanding.  Excellent initiative&#8230;   Paul is also a member of the &#8220;Christian Peacekeeper Team (CPT).&#8221;  He has gone into &#8220;hot spots&#8221; in South America, for instance, to stand as a peaceful witness, mediator, and so on, in the midst of street violence and war zones.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Several years ago, while doing research on the organization, I attended a CPT National Conference in Indiana.  There I learned that it&#8217;s the CPT credo that: As soldiers are willing to die for their cause; CPters are willing to die for peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talked with Paul Weaver, a visiting professor at Bluffton College in Bluffton, Ohio. He is from Worthington, Minnesota and recently coordinated the establishment of a bi-lingual, elementary school there. The school is a mix of Hispanics and Whites, with a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=352\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}