{"id":9112,"date":"2021-01-05T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/05\/opinion-ask-yourself-a-different-set-of-questions\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:37:19","slug":"opinion-ask-yourself-a-different-set-of-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/opinion-ask-yourself-a-different-set-of-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Ask yourself a different set of questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us may breathe a little easier now that 2021 is upon us with renewed hope for a better year following the chaos the pandemic spawned. But before we kick 2020 to the curb entirely, Furman&#8217;s John Harris &#8217;91, a mathematics professor and faculty director of the Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection at the university, implores readers of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/01\/03\/opinion-2021-ask-yourself-different-set-questions-furman-professor-john-harris\/4065438001\/\">Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> to examine lessons learned from a tumultuous year &#8211; &#8220;What things brought me joy this year? Sadness? What is something that I learned? What opportunities did I miss? What habits and practices do I want to take into the new year, and which ones do I want to leave behind?&#8221; he writes in an opinion piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us may breathe a little easier now that 2021 is upon us with renewed hope for a better year following the chaos the pandemic spawned. But before we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,3,88,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-cothran-center-for-vocational-reflection","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112","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=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}