{"id":3780,"date":"2015-05-15T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/15\/an-opera-for-social-justice\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:32:14","slug":"an-opera-for-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/an-opera-for-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"An opera for social justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17981\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/pollock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17981\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17981 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/pollock.jpg\" alt=\"Frances Pollock\" width=\"160\" height=\"198\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/198;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Pollock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Frances \u201cKatie\u201d Pollock, a 2012 graduate of the Furman music program, has composed an opera based on the story of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., a South Carolina youth who was wrongly convicted in the 1940&#8217;s of murdering two girls and became the youngest person to be executed in the 20th century. The opera, \u201cStinney,\u201d is being produced with the assistance of the Johns Hopkins\u2019 Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where Pollock recently completed a master&#8217;s degree in voice. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/arts\/artsmash\/bs-ae-stinney-opera-preview-20150509-story.html#page=1\">The Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reported on the opera by Pollock, who earned a degree in theory and composition from Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances \u201cKatie\u201d Pollock, a 2012 graduate of the Furman music program, has composed an opera based on the story of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., a South Carolina youth who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}