{"id":658,"date":"2012-07-18T21:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T01:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/18\/professor-gordon-on-knowing-the-facts\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:08:01","slug":"professor-gordon-on-knowing-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-gordon-on-knowing-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Gordon on knowing the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3604\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/don-gordon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3604\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3604 lazyload\" title=\"don-gordon\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/don-gordon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"236\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 176px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 176\/236;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Don Gordon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an era of instant news, Furman political science professor Don Gordon writes that it\u2019s hugely important to sift through the often conflicting information presented by multiple sources and get to the heart of what is really going on.\u00a0 Knowing and understanding the facts, he says, enables us to better navigate the world we live in.\u00a0 Gordon\u2019s op-ed \u00a0appeared in <em>The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of instant news, Furman political science professor Don Gordon writes that it\u2019s hugely important to sift through the often conflicting information presented by multiple sources and get to the heart of what is really going on. Knowing and understanding the facts, he says, enables us to better navigate the world we live in. Gordon\u2019s op-ed appeared in\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,6,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}