{"id":38772,"date":"2025-07-22T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38772"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:41:33","slug":"nelsen-goes-on-record-about-scs-role-in-national-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nelsen-goes-on-record-about-scs-role-in-national-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelsen goes on record about SC&#8217;s role in national politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/south-carolina-set-to-be-a-crucial-political-arena-in-upcoming-years\/65431605\">WYFF News 4&#8217;s<\/a> Nate Stanley about the South Carolina governor&#8217;s race and the state&#8217;s influence in national politics. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, said South Carolina will be a &#8220;focal point for a lot of politics&#8221; over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a WYFF News 4 interview, Brent Nelsen says South Carolina will be a focal point for a lot of politics over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,120],"tags":[3467,3466],"class_list":["post-38772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wyff-tv","tag-election-2028","tag-south-carolina-governors-race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772","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=38772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38775,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772\/revisions\/38775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}