{"id":4806,"date":"2024-09-03T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=4806"},"modified":"2024-09-11T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:25:03","slug":"commonweal-conversations-7","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/events\/commonweal-conversations-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonweal Conversations: Saving Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monthly virtual discussion program.\u00a0 Prereading\/topic assigned each month.\u00a0 For more information or to register, go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gacc.retreatportal.com\">https:\/\/gacc.retreatportal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOPIC &#8211; SAVING DEMOCRACY: In nearly every part of the world, democracy is in decline. Right-wing populists and authoritarian strongmen from Ecuador to Hungary continue to advance their personal interests and silence dissent with unchecked power. A recent report by the advocacy group Freedom House found that civil liberties were widely diminished for the eighteenth consecutive year and, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Protect Democracy, more than one-third of the world\u2019s population currently reside in countries that are becoming less democratic. The United States is not immune from this disturbing trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monthly virtual discussion program.\u00a0 Prereading\/topic assigned each month.\u00a0 For more information or to register, go to:\u00a0https:\/\/gacc.retreatportal.com TOPIC &#8211; SAVING DEMOCRACY: In nearly every part of the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-4806","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}