{"id":244,"date":"2014-09-19T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2015-01-26T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T05:31:24","slug":"our-piece-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Our piece in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We received a wonderful positive response to our recent piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-importance-of-teaching-more-than-english-to-refugee-students-31407\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation<\/a>. It is great to see some positive coverage of the issues facing refugees coming to Australia, and that those who engaged with the piece could appreciate our argument for moving beyond a sole focus on English language acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-19-at-8.58.05-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-19-at-8.58.05-pm-300x69.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-09-19 at 8.58.05 pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-19-at-8.58.05-pm-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-19-at-8.58.05-pm.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received a wonderful positive response to our recent piece in The Conversation. It is great to see some positive coverage of the issues facing refugees coming to Australia, and that those who engaged with the piece could appreciate our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/?p=244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,80,79,82,81,66,83],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-education","tag-refugees","tag-resettlement","tag-students","tag-the-conversation","tag-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damienriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}