{"id":153,"date":"2008-10-09T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-08-25T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T15:15:30","slug":"when-you-want-to-know-what-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"When you want to know what I do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;this sorta explains our initiative:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H-GQKoUFaTY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H-GQKoUFaTY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nBasically, we&#8217;re negotiating with the Federal government for the area First Nations to take over jurisdiction (responsibility for\/ability to make laws and regs) over education for their children. It would create a relationship between a central education office and the Treasury Board directly, rather than working with Indian Affairs, who currently has jurisdiction.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a good thing, because it means more control over how funding is allocated, the ability to negotiate with the school boards, and (hopefully) more money for new and innovative, cultural-specific programs.<br \/>\nAnd me? I&#8217;m the guy trying to sell the concept to First Nations members.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Apparently, Youtube says I violated terms of use by posting that video. Argh. Back up in a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;this sorta explains our initiative: Basically, we&#8217;re negotiating with the Federal government for the area First Nations to take over jurisdiction (responsibility for\/ability to make laws and regs) over education for their children. It would create a relationship between a central education office and the Treasury Board directly, rather than working with Indian Affairs, who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=153\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When you want to know what I do&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lincoln","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}