{"id":2848,"date":"2024-04-08T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2024-04-08T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:02:30","slug":"searching-for-service-ed-marek-and-jeff-thiemann-braver-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/searching-for-service-ed-marek-and-jeff-thiemann-braver-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Service &#8211; Ed Marek and Jeff Thiemann Braver Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2848-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/am950_mike_mcintee\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1795554610-user-587903571-ed-marek-and-jeff-thiemann-braver-angels.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/am950_mike_mcintee\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1795554610-user-587903571-ed-marek-and-jeff-thiemann-braver-angels.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/am950_mike_mcintee\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1795554610-user-587903571-ed-marek-and-jeff-thiemann-braver-angels.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PDG Ed Marek and Jeff Thiemann, Braver Angels Co-Leader for the Reduce the Rancor campaign were interviewed on the Searching For Service Radio program on AM950 KTNF.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce the Rancor is a statewide campaign that calls on Minnesotans across the political spectrum \u2013 liberals, conservatives and independents \u2013 to help reduce hostile polarization during what promises to be a politically divisive election year.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is sponsored by the nonprofit Braver Angels and championed by the chairs of the state\u2019s two major political parties and 21 organizations that include elected officials, colleges and universities, Minnesota Public Radio, professional associations, and religious and civic groups.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign asks sponsoring organizations and individual Minnesotans to take at least one action to lower the temperature in their conversations about politics. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/mn.braverangels.org\/reduce-the-rancor\">Reduce<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mn.braverangels.org\/reduce-the-rancor\">the Rancor <\/a>website for partners and ways to help reduce political hostility.<\/p>\n<p>Braver Angels co-founder William J. Doherty is speaking at a Rotary Community Forum on April 16th. Details about the forum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulrotary.org\/events\/forum\">https:\/\/www.stpaulrotary.org\/events\/forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; PDG Ed Marek and Jeff Thiemann, Braver Angels Co-Leader for the Reduce the Rancor campaign were interviewed on the Searching For Service Radio program on AM950 KTNF. Reduce the Rancor is a statewide campaign that calls on Minnesotans across the political spectrum \u2013 liberals, conservatives and independents \u2013 to help reduce hostile polarization during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-braver-angels","category-podcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-11-28 21:41:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rotary5960.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}