{"id":1571,"date":"2016-02-10T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/the-u-s-congress-comes-to-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:30:07","slug":"the-u-s-congress-comes-to-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-u-s-congress-comes-to-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Congress comes to Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8139\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/washington-dc-smaller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8139 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/washington-dc-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"washington-dc-smaller\" width=\"226\" height=\"208\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 226px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 226\/208;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Furman students in \u201cThe American Congress\u201d class of political science professor Danielle Vinson got a real-life lesson last Friday when three member of the U.S. Congress paid a visit.\u00a0 U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C. 4th District) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah 3rd District) talked to the students about the attack in Benghazi and other political issues that are on the front burner in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130914\/news\/309140011\/gowdy-praises-graham-benghazi\"><strong>Read more in The Greenville News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman students in \u201cThe American Congress\u201d class of political science professor Danielle Vinson got a real-life lesson last Friday when three member of the U.S. Congress paid a visit. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C. 4th District) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah 3rd District) talked to the students about the attack in Benghazi and other political issues that are on the front burner in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","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\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}