{"id":249,"date":"2016-02-11T18:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/on-vonnegut-and-canoes\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:36:13","slug":"on-vonnegut-and-canoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/on-vonnegut-and-canoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas on Vonnegut and canoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece for the Daily Kos website, Furman professor Paul Thomas ruminates on the wisdom of paddling your own canoe when it comes to education reform.\u00a0 Dr. Thomas, who teaches in the education department, has been a member of the faculty since 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/11\/30\/1041051\/-Paddle-Your-Own-Canoe:-A-Case-for-Education\">Read \u201cPaddle Your Own Canoe?: A Case for Education\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece for the Daily Kos website, Furman professor Paul Thomas ruminates on the wisdom of paddling your own canoe when it comes to education reform.\u00a0 Dr. Thomas, who teaches in the education department, has been a member of the faculty since 2002.<\/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":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}