{"id":8456,"date":"2019-10-24T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/costumes-and-parties\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:22","slug":"costumes-and-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/costumes-and-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking critically about costumes and parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2019\/10\/24\/furman-university-greenville-sc-get-ahead-costume-controversy-cultural-appropriation-halloween\/4010937002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> reached out to Furman for a story about how students&#8217; Halloween costumes can be tolerant and respectful. Deborah Allen, director of the Center for Inclusive Communities, and Kelsey Milian, president of the Student Diversity Council, commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had many conversations about the balance of freedom of speech and the type of community we want to build on our campus,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much historical context when it comes to these things, and there&#8217;s nuance and there&#8217;s gray areas too. You can honor or show appreciation for someone without wearing facial paint to match their skin.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenville News reached out to Furman for a story about how students&#8217; Halloween costumes can be tolerant and respectful. Deborah Allen, director of the Center for Inclusive Communities, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","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=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}