{"id":211372,"date":"2021-02-22T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chooselovemovement.org\/?p=211372"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:38:00","slug":"episode-31-iran-nazario-peace-center-of-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.peraltadev.com\/chooselove\/episode-31-iran-nazario-peace-center-of-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 31: Iran Nazario &#8211; Peace Center of CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I sat down with Iran Nazario, the owner and founder of the Peace Center of Connecticut. Iran was a foster child in the custody of DCF in his childhood who then immersed himself in to the violent street culture of gang membership and prison though his twenties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 he began to repurpose himself to helping youth avoid his childhood path. 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