{"id":4083,"date":"2015-10-05T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/05\/the-berlin-wall-revisited\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:16","slug":"the-berlin-wall-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-berlin-wall-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berlin Wall revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Tensley-Head-Shot-cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16918 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Tensley-Head-Shot-cropped-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Tensley-Head-Shot, cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/216;\" \/><\/a>2012 Furman University political science and German major Brandon Tensley attempts to uncover the root causes of xenophobia among people from former East Germany. In a piece he wrote for the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2015\/10\/02\/its-been-25-years-since-german-reunification-why-are-former-east-germans-responsible-for-so-much-xenophobic-violence\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, <\/em>Tensley teases out whether or not xenophobia may be attributed to Germany\u2019s communist past. Tensley is a 2015-2016 Luce Scholar in Thailand. He was a 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Germany and is a graduate of the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Furman University political science and German major Brandon Tensley attempts to uncover the root causes of xenophobia among people from former East Germany. In a piece he wrote for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","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=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}