{"id":19638,"date":"2022-09-09T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=19638"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:44:39","slug":"god-save-the-queen-upstate-locals-respond-to-queens-death-life-and-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/god-save-the-queen-upstate-locals-respond-to-queens-death-life-and-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;God save the queen&#8217;: Upstate locals respond to queen&#8217;s death, life and legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19642\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19642\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19642 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/09\/carolyn-day-history-300-1.jpg\" alt=\"white woman wearing glasses, Carolyn Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/247;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Day, an associate professor of history at Furman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, local TV stations reached out to Furman University&#8217;s Carolyn Day for her perspective on the monarch and her 70-year reign. Day, an associate professor of history who specializes in British and European history, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=9%2F9%2F2022+8%3A35%3A51+AM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/locals-respond-queens-death\/41123761\">WYFF News 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has been popular, she has been unpopular,&#8221; Day said in an interview with WYFF. &#8220;The royal family has been popular and has been unpopular. So there\u2019s been lots of cycles. But I think generally she is more beloved now than she has been in the past. And everybody is sort of recognizing toward the end of her life that&#8230;long history of service that she has given to Great Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local news stations tap British history expert and Associate Professor of History Carolyn Day in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":19643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,42,6,1,120],"tags":[1572,1571,1573],"class_list":["post-19638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized","category-wyff-tv","tag-monarch","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}