{"id":27522,"date":"2023-09-06T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27522"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T01:31:04","slug":"vinson-weighs-in-on-the-question-of-bidens-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/vinson-weighs-in-on-the-question-of-bidens-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson weighs in on the question of Biden&#8217;s age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4188496-the-memo-questions-over-bidens-age-are-getting-sharper\/\">The Hill<\/a>, journalist Niall Stanage cites a recent poll in which 80 percent of respondents said they were &#8220;very concerned&#8221; or &#8220;somewhat concerned&#8221; about Biden&#8217;s ability to serve effectively during a possible second term. Stanage turned to Furman University&#8217;s Danielle Vinson, an alumna and professor of politics and international affairs, who commented on how President Biden&#8217;s age will influence voters in the upcoming election. &#8220;There has been a lot of partisan coverage in conservative media that focuses on every gaffe that he makes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But, quite honestly, every president makes gaffes and some of them are quite young when they do so. George W. Bush had an interesting relationship with the English language, for example,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does age matter for the highest office in the land? Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson offers her thoughts on President Biden as a viable two-term candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":27524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,6,32,1852],"tags":[1874,2283,245],"class_list":["post-27522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-hill","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-age-and-the-presidency","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522","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=27522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}