{"id":29230,"date":"2023-12-01T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29230"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:06:04","slug":"kolb-explores-sociology-and-modern-day-river-piloting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/kolb-explores-sociology-and-modern-day-river-piloting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolb explores sociology and modern-day river piloting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Ken Kolb pens an article about the work of river pilots in the age of automation in <a href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/against-the-current\">64 Parishes<\/a>, a project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. In his article, &#8220;Against the Current,&#8221; Kolb, chair of the Sociology Department at Furman, writes about the benefits automation has brought to the world of modern shipping and explains how the human side of the equation is just as essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some things automation can&#8217;t replace. Furman&#8217;s Ken Kolb explains the nuances of modern-day shipping at the intersection of automation and human skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2418,6,22],"tags":[2419,2420,1161],"class_list":["post-29230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-64-parishes","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","tag-automation","tag-river-pilots","tag-shipping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230","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=29230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}