{"id":1111,"date":"2007-03-05T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2007-03-05T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T03:34:12","slug":"jeff-aitken-lays-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/jeff-aitken-lays-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Aitken lays it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jeff Aitken has been a strangely influential person in my life. \u00a0 He has been an interesting guide across intercultural spaces, helping me to frame and see my own journey as a person of mixed ancestry facilitating cross-cultural groups and helping to find the creative spark in the space that are created when we all claim our centres and show up whole. \u00a0 Jeff and I met in 2001 and have had a few conversations over the years, but I&#8217;ve always felt very close to him.<\/p>\n<p>Now at his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/riograndio.blogspot.com\/\">rio grand-i-o,<\/a> he is posting his doctoral thesis which documents his journey to his complex and liquid centre, as a man of mixed ancesrty cultivating an indigenous relationship with the land upon which he lives. \u00a0 Worth a read, worth subscribing to and worth following if you are interested in how white people can participate in the decolonization process on this continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jeff Aitken has been a strangely influential person in my life. \u00a0 He has been an interesting guide across intercultural spaces, helping me to frame and see my own journey as a person of mixed ancestry facilitating cross-cultural groups and helping to find the creative spark in the space that are created when we all claim our centres and show up whole. \u00a0 Jeff and I met in 2001 and have had a few conversations over the years, but I&#8217;ve always felt very close to him. Now at his blog rio grand-i-o, he is posting his doctoral thesis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-first-nations","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-hV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}