{"id":8753,"date":"2020-04-20T21:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/12-ways-past-epidemics-changed-everyday-life\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:55","slug":"12-ways-past-epidemics-changed-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/12-ways-past-epidemics-changed-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"12 ways past epidemics changed everyday life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/lifestyle\/smart-living\/12-ways-past-epidemics-changed-everyday-life-in-america\/ss-BB12Nu85#image=3\">Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/a> article published by MSN, the author looks at historical epidemics and how they shaped building practices and materials, beauty, fashion, vaccines and more. In at least one of the &#8220;12 ways&#8221; disease changed everyday life, the writer cites a book by Carolyn Day, Furman University associate professor of history. Among other social and cultural outcomes, Day&#8217;s book, &#8220;Consumptive Chic: A History of\u00a0 Beauty, Fashion and Disease,&#8221; describes the strange co-mingling of beauty with the appearance of having tuberculosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a\u00a0Reader&#8217;s Digest article published by MSN, the author looks at historical epidemics and how they shaped building practices and materials, beauty, fashion, vaccines and more. In at least one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8753","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\/8753","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=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}