{"id":6330,"date":"2016-12-19T01:46:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/19\/a-mothers-voice\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:54:42","slug":"a-mothers-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-mothers-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When a parent is incarcerated, the children pay for it,&#8221; said Bryan Stirling, a participant in the Riley Institute&#8217;s Diversity Leaders Initiative at Furman University. Stirling, director of\u00a0the state Department of Corrections, and others in his Capstone project crew came up with a way for imprisoned mothers to &#8220;read to&#8221; their children by providing recordable books. Said Stirling, &#8220;I want to keep a connection between the offender and the family. Mainly what I wanted to do was let the children know that their parent still cared for them.\u201d Read more about A Mother&#8217;s Voice in an article which appeared in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/living\/article120873148.html\">The State<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Salley McInerney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When a parent is incarcerated, the children pay for it,&#8221; said Bryan Stirling, a participant in the Riley Institute&#8217;s Diversity Leaders Initiative at Furman University. Stirling, director of\u00a0the state Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":16514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","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=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}