{"id":2479,"date":"2021-11-19T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T00:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/ghosts-monsters-and-fiscal-cliffs\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:14:48","slug":"ghosts-monsters-and-fiscal-cliffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ghosts-monsters-and-fiscal-cliffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts, monsters and fiscal cliffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for <em>The Greenville News<\/em>, Furman professors Jason Jones (Economics) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) address the issue of America\u2019s looming fiscal cliff.\u00a0 They write that the nation\u2019s elected officials must, through leadership and compromise, first overcome the monster they have created and then confront the real monster lurking in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Furman professors Jason Jones (Economics) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) address the issue of America\u2019s looming fiscal cliff.\u00a0 They write that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}