{"id":8466,"date":"2019-10-28T21:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/28\/why-did-trump-visit-benedict-college\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:28","slug":"why-did-trump-visit-benedict-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/why-did-trump-visit-benedict-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Trump visit Benedict College?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0visit to Benedict College last weekend has raised questions about his motivation for visiting the historically black school in Columbia, South Carolina&#8211;a school where the demographic likely holds few Trump supporters. Eric Connor of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/story\/news\/2019\/10\/25\/president-donald-trump-benedict-college-hbcu-columbia-sc-stick-democrats-deeper-political-strategy\/4083133002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> reached out to Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Danielle Vinson who said Trump&#8217;s visit was fueled by something other than winning the Bipartisan Justice Award at the &#8220;Second Step Presidential Justice Forum&#8221; held at the HBCU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0visit to Benedict College last weekend has raised questions about his motivation for visiting the historically black school in Columbia, South Carolina&#8211;a school where the demographic likely holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466","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=8466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}