{"id":1569,"date":"2013-09-16T19:59:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/16\/we-can-act-when-we-stare-at-evil\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:37:02","slug":"we-can-act-when-we-stare-at-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/we-can-act-when-we-stare-at-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"We can act when we stare at evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8135\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/liz-smith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8135 lazyload\" alt=\"Dr. Liz Smith \" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/liz-smith.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"270\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 190px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 190\/270;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Liz Smith<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman political science professor Liz Smith teaches a course in \u201cPolitics of Good and Evil,\u201d where the class studies man\u2019s inhumanity to man, as evidenced by genocides and mass killings, as well as acts of exceptional heroism and altruism. The recent situation in Syria led Smith to write an op-ed in <em>The Greenville News<\/em> about what it means to live in a time when such atrocities become a part of our daily lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130914\/OPINION\/309140008\/We-can-act-when-we-stare-evil\"><strong>Read the op-ed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman political science professor Liz Smith teaches a course in \u201cPolitics of Good and Evil,\u201d where the class studies man\u2019s inhumanity to man, as evidenced by genocides and mass killings, as well as acts of exceptional heroism and altruism. The recent situation in Syria led Smith to write an op-ed in\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>\u00a0about what it means to live in a time when such atrocities become a part of our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}