{"id":6753,"date":"2008-02-27T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T18:07:54","slug":"author-to-discuss-demands-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/author-to-discuss-demands-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Author to discuss demands of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Paul Woodruff will present a lecture titled &#8220;Are Americans Ready for Democracy?&#8221; beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in Ashurst Auditorium in Old Main.<\/p>\n<p>Woodruff, a University of Texas professor of ethics in American Society, is author of\u00a0<em>First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea<\/em>. He will discuss the principal demands that democracy makes on citizens, as learned from the ancient Greeks, and examines American readiness to meet those demands.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is free and open to the public. For information contact\u00a0<strong>Christopher Griffin<\/strong>\u00a0at (928) 523-9079 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Christopher.Griffin@nau.edu\">Christopher.Griffin@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is sponsored by the American Democracy Project at NAU and the Richard Wood Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/author-to-discuss-demands-of-democracy\/\">Author Paul Woodruff will present a lecture titled &#8220;Are Americans Ready for Democracy?&#8221; beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in Ashurst Auditorium in Old Main. Woodruff, a University of Texas professor of ethics in American Society, is author of\u00a0First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea. He will discuss the principal demands that democracy&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}