{"id":8996,"date":"2019-03-13T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2020-08-20T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:01:08","slug":"a-conversation-with-first-lady-gwen-walz-and-gay-rights-advocate-randy-florke-on-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/13\/a-conversation-with-first-lady-gwen-walz-and-gay-rights-advocate-randy-florke-on-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with First Lady Gwen Walz and Gay Rights Advocate Randy Florke on March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-19-at-1.19.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-19-at-1.19.12-PM-300x255.png\" alt=\"Gwen Walz and Randy Florke headshots \" width=\"264\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-19-at-1.19.12-PM-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-19-at-1.19.12-PM.png 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>Randy Florke will speak about the gay rights movement in a conversation with Gwen Walz, an<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">advocate in her own right for equality, public education, and prison education. Walz is the wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and recently began working at Augsburg. Walz and Florke met when they were both Congressional spouses. Florke is married to New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When: Tuesday, March 26, 2019<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6:30 p.m. Registration<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7:00 p.m. Program with Q and A<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8:30 p.m. Reception<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sateren Auditorium, Augsburg University<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2200 7 1\/2 Street S., Minneapolis<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/augsburg.universitytickets.com\/w\/event.aspx?id=1338&amp;p=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get tickets at this link. Admission is free.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/412915525920025\/\">See Facebook event here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Video taping is prohibited to maintain a safe space for dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Florke will speak about the gay rights movement in a conversation with Gwen Walz, an advocate in her own right for equality, public education, and prison education. Walz is the wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and recently began working at Augsburg. Walz and Florke met when they were both Congressional spouses. Florke is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories","category-staff","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","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\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10117,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}