{"id":6011,"date":"2016-08-12T21:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T01:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/12\/making-room-at-our-table-in-a-global-community\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:33:55","slug":"making-room-at-our-table-in-a-global-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/making-room-at-our-table-in-a-global-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Room at Our Table in a Global Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of the wrongful arrest of United Arab Emirates businessman Ahmed Al Menhali at an Ohio hotel in June coupled with the July terrorist attack at a bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh prompted Furman professor Lisa Knight to write a commentary for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/who-do-we-invite-to-our-table-in-a-global-community_us_57a4d7aae4b034b25894c99c?section=us_religion\">The Huffington Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Dr. Knight, who teaches in the departments of Asian Studies and Religion at Furman, recounted the time she and her husband lived in Dhaka.\u00a0 But that remembrance produced \u201cquite a different narrative, one of intersecting paths, vulnerability, and profound kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of the wrongful arrest of United Arab Emirates businessman Ahmed Al Menhali at an Ohio hotel in June coupled with the July terrorist attack at a bakery in Dhaka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-asian-studies","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","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=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}