{"id":7757,"date":"2018-10-17T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/17\/reflecting-on-the-past\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:39:46","slug":"reflecting-on-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/reflecting-on-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/2018\/10\/17\/unearthing-the-past-furman-reckons-with-its-early-leadership\/\">The Greenville Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> wrote an article about the work of Furman\u2019s Task Force on Slavery and Justice, which is examining the university\u2019s historical connections to slavery. The report the group released in July included a number of recommendations for the university to consider. The Journal article included a quote from Furman senior Chelsea McKelvey, a member of the task force. \u201cReflection is what this entire report is based upon,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd since we have the collaboration of the faculty and the staff and the students and the administration, I think we\u2019re all getting a chance to reflect on what the university was about then, what it\u2019s about now, and what it will be about in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenville Journal wrote an article about the work of Furman\u2019s Task Force on Slavery and Justice, which is examining the university\u2019s historical connections to slavery. The report the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757","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=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}