{"id":1910,"date":"2009-01-28T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2009-01-28T21:18:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:18:25","slug":"the-face-of-community-deliberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-face-of-community-deliberation\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of community deliberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K7Qm5TxYxD4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Citizens and political representatives on my home island of Bowen Island, at a meeting this week in which a controversial decision was made to build an artifical turf playing field at our community school. \u00a0 I didn&#8217;t run this meeting&#8230;it was a regular council meeting, but the one in which the decision was made. \u00a0 The soundtrack is something of a political statement from the videographer, but the images are beautiful. \u00a0 They show my friends and neighbours as they sit pitted against one another in a tense meeting over a deep quality of life issue. \u00a0 Just studying and watching these faces reminds me of how hard this work really is sometimes, to tough through difficult choices and live out your principles and dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens and political representatives on my home island of Bowen Island, at a meeting this week in which a controversial decision was made to build an artifical turf playing field at our community school. \u00a0 I didn&#8217;t run this meeting&#8230;it was a regular council meeting, but the one in which the decision was made. \u00a0 The soundtrack is something of a political statement from the videographer, but the images are beautiful. \u00a0 They show my friends and neighbours as they sit pitted against one another in a tense meeting over a deep quality of life issue. \u00a0 Just studying and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-conversation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-uO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","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=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}