{"id":190,"date":"2011-11-09T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/09\/958\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:27:12","slug":"958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/958\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum Matthew Lassiter writes op-ed for New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_960\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/matthew-lassiter1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-960 lazyload\" title=\"matthew-lassiter\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/matthew-lassiter1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"180\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 118px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 118\/180;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Lassiter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Matthew Lassiter, a 1992 Furman graduate who teaches history at the University of Michigan, wrote an op-ed for <em>The New York Times<\/em> about America\u2019s\u00a0\u201cgreat silent majority.\u201d\u00a0 Lassiter graduated from Furman with a degree in history, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Virginia.\u00a0 He has been a member of the history faculty at Michigan since 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/03\/opinion\/populism-and-the-silent-majority.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1320854544-cTFBSNF0Gf08VMy+8fCAUQ\">Read \u201cThe Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Lassiter, a 1992 Furman graduate who teaches history at the University of Michigan, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about America\u2019s \u201cgreat silent majority.\u201d  Lassiter graduated from Furman with a degree in history, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Virginia.  He has been a member of the history faculty at Michigan since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}