{"id":3863,"date":"2015-07-07T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/discussing-the-confederate-flag-issue\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:09","slug":"discussing-the-confederate-flag-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/discussing-the-confederate-flag-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing the Confederate flag issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/confederate-flag1-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18366 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/confederate-flag1-small.jpg\" alt=\"confederate-flag1-small\" width=\"240\" height=\"175\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/175;\" \/><\/a>Furman political science professor Danielle Vinson was quoted in a July 7 <em>New York Times<\/em> article about the legislative battle to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State House. \u201cThis is not going to be a pleasant vote for a lot of people,\u201d Vinson said. \u201cThey\u2019re catching heck from their constituents. But I also think there\u2019s enough sentiment, not just in the House and Senate but across the states, to get this done.\u201d The Times story was reprinted in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2015\/07\/07\/confederate-flag-opponents-turn-eyes-south-carolina-house\/xXUu09IIGINutA6Oq4vagK\/story.html\">The Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and other newspapers across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman political science professor Danielle Vinson was quoted in a July 7 New York Times article about the legislative battle to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","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\/3863","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=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}