{"id":3106,"date":"2007-10-29T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2017-02-13T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:04:37","slug":"rick-steves-to-deliver-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/29\/rick-steves-to-deliver-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Steves to Deliver Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/05\/rick_steves.jpg\" alt=\"rick_steves\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" \/>Nationally recognized travel expert Rick Steves will deliver a free public lecture on Friday, Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. in Hoversten Chapel of Augsburg College\u2019s Foss Center.<\/p>\n<p>His lecture, \u201cTravel as a Political Act,\u201d will discuss how travel has changed his perspectives on the United States\u2019 role in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel helps us celebrate differences and overcome misunderstandings \u2014 big and little \u2014 between people,\u201d says Steves. \u201cTravel paints a human face on our globe, making the vast gap between rich and poor vivid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steves is author of <em>Europe Through the Back Door <\/em>and host of well-known travel shows on PBS and public radio.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is being held in honor of Augsburg&#8217;s Center for Global Education\u2019s 25th anniversary. Steves has traveled on CGE programs on three separate occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally recognized travel expert Rick Steves will deliver a free public lecture on Friday, Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. in Hoversten Chapel of Augsburg College\u2019s Foss Center. His lecture, \u201cTravel as a Political Act,\u201d will discuss how travel has changed his perspectives on the United States\u2019 role in the world. \u201cTravel helps us celebrate differences &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2366,2454,2961,2962],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-public-lecture","tag-rick-steves","tag-travel","tag-travel-as-a-political-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}