{"id":8548,"date":"2019-12-10T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/10\/confederate-monuments\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:16","slug":"confederate-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/confederate-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"A university\u2019s betrayal of historical truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the controversy surrounding how to deal with monuments that pay homage to Civil War veterans, some hold that a recent move by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is misguided. More than a year after a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters, the university has agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million to place the statue off campus in the care of a trust. The story, which appeared in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/12\/the-university-of-north-carolinas-payout-to-the-confederate-lost-cause\/603253\/?utm_source=atl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=share\">The Atlantic,<\/a><\/strong> mentions Furman University&#8217;s efforts to reckon with its historical ties to slavery and &#8220;past social injustices.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the controversy surrounding how to deal with monuments that pay homage to Civil War veterans, some hold that a recent move by the University of North Carolina at Chapel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","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=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}