{"id":6432,"date":"2017-02-08T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/13\/a-path-forward-for-southern-democrats\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:55:20","slug":"a-path-forward-for-southern-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-path-forward-for-southern-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"A path forward for southern democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University political science graduate Ben Saul (Class of 2013) has a three-pronged plan for the Democratic Party to shore up support in the South. He says, &#8220;If Southern Democrats begin to offer our policy ideas under the core values of Economic Security, Educational Opportunity, and Social Inclusion, we can start to regain the trust of voters and compete once again on the state and local level.&#8221; Read more in a <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2017\/02\/07\/commentary-path-forward-southern-democrats\/97604364\/\">Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/em> commentary by Saul, a Truman Scholar and past president of\u00a0Young Democrats of Greenville County. Saul \u00a0holds an<em>\u00a0<\/em>Ed.M. from Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University political science graduate Ben Saul (Class of 2013) has a three-pronged plan for the Democratic Party to shore up support in the South. He says, &#8220;If Southern Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","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=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}