{"id":2763,"date":"2013-11-18T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/18\/hanging-out-at-the-white-house-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:34:24","slug":"hanging-out-at-the-white-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/hanging-out-at-the-white-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging out at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Owens, a 2002 Furman graduate in political science, is currently working in the White House as special assistant to chief of staff Denis McDonough.\u00a0 Owens started work at the White House under President George W. Bush as a network systems maintenance and audio-visual technician, and then assumed the role of Situation Room communicator under President Obama. Since February 2013, Owens has served as McDonough\u2019s special assistant, which entails executing special projects and assisting with the office\u2019s day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n<p>Owens was recently featured in an article on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/news\/politics\/2013\/11\/11\/why-i-serve-maurice-owens-special-assistant-to-white-house-chief-of-staff.html\"><strong>BET website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Owens, a 2002 Furman graduate in political science, is currently working in the White House as special assistant to chief of staff Denis McDonough.\u00a0 Owens started work at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","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\/2763","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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}