{"id":2500,"date":"2016-02-11T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/who-will-replace-sen-jim-demint\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:29:09","slug":"who-will-replace-sen-jim-demint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/who-will-replace-sen-jim-demint\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will replace Sen. Jim DeMint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman political science professor Brent Nelsen was quoted in a Politico article about the chances that Rep. Tim Scott would be chosen to replace Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Senator who resigned to take a job running The Heritage Foundation.\u00a0 If so, Scott, a conservative black Republican, would be the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/12\/tim-scotts-bio-raises-senate-appeal-84719.html\"><strong>Read the article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman political science professor Brent Nelsen was quoted in a Politico article about the chances that Rep. Tim Scott would be chosen to replace Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","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\/2500","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=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}