{"id":11675,"date":"2012-12-19T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2017-11-10T03:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:06:47","slug":"our-thoughts-are-with-chief-theresa-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/our-thoughts-are-with-chief-theresa-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Our thoughts are with&#8230; Chief Theresa Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11681\" title=\"Chief_Theresa_Spence_Ottawa_Canada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chief_Theresa_Spence_Ottawa_Canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ottawa, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat First Nation is in the 9th day of her hunger strike on Victoria Island, about 1.3 km from Canada&#8217;s Parliament Buildings on Capital Hill. She has called for a face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and representatives of the Queen regarding First Nations treaty issues.<\/p>\n<p>There is a groundswell of support for the bold stance she is taking, not just among Canada&#8217;s 1.2 million Aboriginal descendents, but also across non-Aboriginal &#8220;mainstream&#8221; Canada and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, Canada Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat First Nation is in the 9th day of her hunger strike on Victoria Island, about 1.3 km from Canada&#8217;s Parliament Buildings on Capital Hill. She has called for a face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and representatives of the Queen regarding First Nations treaty issues. There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15338,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions\/15338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}