{"id":7711,"date":"2018-09-26T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/26\/remembering-a-decisive-battle\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:50:13","slug":"remembering-a-decisive-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/remembering-a-decisive-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a decisive battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 26 marked the centennial commemoration of World War I\u2019s Meuse-Argonne offensive, which was launched in northern France and involved more than a million American soldiers. NPR correspondent and Furman alum Eleanor Beardsley \u201986 reported on the commemoration, which included an interview with Furman history professor Courtney Tollison \u201999 about the African-American soldiers who served in the campaign. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/17796129\/eleanor-beardsley\">NPR piece is available online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 26 marked the centennial commemoration of World War I\u2019s Meuse-Argonne offensive, which was launched in northern France and involved more than a million American soldiers. NPR correspondent and Furman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711","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=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}