{"id":6848,"date":"2016-03-28T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:40:34","slug":"harry-boyte-remembers-martin-olav-sabo-in-huffington-post-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/28\/harry-boyte-remembers-martin-olav-sabo-in-huffington-post-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Boyte remembers Martin Olav Sabo &#8217;59 in Huffington Post article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/Huffington-Post-e1413220543853.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/Huffington-Post-e1413220543853.jpeg\" alt=\"Huffington-Post - logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><strong>Harry Boyte<\/strong>, senior scholar in public work philosophy for the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, shared\u00a0in a recent Huffington Post article his experiences working with the Center&#8217;s namesake: the late <strong>Martin Olav Sabo &#8217;59<\/strong>. Prior to the 2009 merging of the Sabo Center and Augsburg College&#8217;s Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Boyte had met Sabo while working for the Reinventing Citizenship initiative in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Boyte writes of Sabo&#8217;s reputation as a respectful, bipartisan advocate for democracy. He states that Sabo exemplified the values of Augsburg College &#8220;in extraordinary ways, believing in the positive role of government and also the need for a much bigger environment of civic interaction.&#8221; He further notes that &#8220;Martin was enthusiastic about our work to&#8230; create public discussions on the purpose and future of colleges and universities that can reframe what is now often a polarized and narrow debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/harry-boyte\/martin-olav-sabo-and-the-_b_9507202.html\">Martin Olav Sabo and the Spirit of Democracy<\/a> on the Huffington Post site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Boyte, senior scholar in public work philosophy for the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, shared\u00a0in a recent Huffington Post article his experiences working with the Center&#8217;s namesake: the late Martin Olav Sabo &#8217;59. Prior to the 2009 merging of the Sabo Center and Augsburg College&#8217;s Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Boyte had met &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[801,1236,3308,1803,3455],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-democracy","tag-harry-boyte","tag-huffington-post","tag-martin-olav-sabo","tag-sabo-center-for-democracy-and-citizenship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}