{"id":7892,"date":"2017-10-10T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2019-10-04T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:02:07","slug":"augsburg-senior-scholar-receives-spirit-ghandi-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/10\/augsburg-senior-scholar-receives-spirit-ghandi-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg senior scholar receives Spirit of Ghandi Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7893\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/SG-Award-Nonviolence-Day-620x264-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/SG-Award-Nonviolence-Day-620x264-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/SG-Award-Nonviolence-Day-620x264.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Boyte (far right) receives the Spirit of Ghandi Award at the State Capitol. Photo courtesy of Chai News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recognition of his work promoting civic engagement and non-violence, Augsburg scholar Harry Boyte has been awarded the Spirit of Gandhi Award. Boyte, the senior scholar in public work philosophy with the Augsburg Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, describes the spiritual, moral, and psychological aspects of non-violence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/the-new-nonviolence_us_59cfa66ee4b034ae778d4ad7\">his Huffington Post article on the new nonviolence movement<\/a>. The Spirit of Gandhi Award is given in\u00a0celebration\u00a0of\u00a0Nonviolence Day, a globally-observed day on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi,\u00a0at the Minnesota State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of his work promoting civic engagement and non-violence, Augsburg scholar Harry Boyte has been awarded the Spirit of Gandhi Award. Boyte, the senior scholar in public work philosophy with the Augsburg Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, describes the spiritual, moral, and psychological aspects of non-violence in his Huffington Post article on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[614,1236],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-civic-engagement","tag-harry-boyte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}