{"id":4489,"date":"2016-05-03T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/03\/brent-nelsen-on-the-fate-of-a-bill\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:05:22","slug":"brent-nelsen-on-the-fate-of-a-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-on-the-fate-of-a-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Fate of a SC Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina bathroom bill\u2014similar to House Bill 2\u2014is apparently dead for the year.\u00a0 The bill that would prevent transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice never made it to the Senate floor. According to Furman political science professor Brent Nelsen, state senators had to pass the bill by a certain date and that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 Nelsen was interviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/south-carolina-bathroom-bill-dead-for-now\">WLOS-TV<\/a><\/strong> in Asheville, N.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina bathroom bill\u2014similar to House Bill 2\u2014is apparently dead for the year.\u00a0 The bill that would prevent transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice never made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,69,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}