{"id":182,"date":"2022-06-21T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2022-06-21T23:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:19:56","slug":"john-r-mott-wscf-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/21\/john-r-mott-wscf-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"John R. Mott, WSCF Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/aa\/John_Raleigh_Mott.jpg\/800px-John_Raleigh_Mott.jpg\" alt=\"John Raleigh Mott.jpg\"\/><figcaption>John R. Mott, founder of the WSCF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we get ready for the WSCF General Assembly this week, its first in-person meeting since before the pandemic, it is good to learn something about the long and venerable history of this great organisation.&nbsp; Quite remarkably, WSCF founder John Mott won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, in a time of massive global tumult and disruption as the western nations shifted focus from the war against fascism to the Cold War against the Soviet Union.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There must have been many candidates for the Peace Prize as the world emerged from such bloody and stupid fighting, carnage and genocide.&nbsp; To give this uniquely celebrated and distinguished honour to a man who focused on how the beliefs of university students can affect world politics demonstrates a remarkable insight and vision from the Nobel Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mott","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get ready for the WSCF General Assembly this week, its first in-person meeting since before the pandemic, it is good to learn something about the long and venerable history of this great organisation.&nbsp; Quite remarkably, WSCF founder John Mott won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, in a time of massive global tumult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}