{"id":9139,"date":"2021-01-21T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/27\/one-lands-work-at-healing-can-help-u-s\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:37:39","slug":"one-lands-work-at-healing-can-help-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/one-lands-work-at-healing-can-help-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"One land\u2019s work at healing can help U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Harris, a Furman University mathematics professor, proffers a mathematical approach for solving problems of social and political unrest in the U.S. in an opinion piece he wrote for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/opinion\/opinion-one-lands-work-at-healing-can-help-us\/J5OYLP4WQRHKHEKDNTTE5SETHI\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a><\/strong>. Following the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Harris reflects on a trip he took in 2015 to Corrymeela, a reconciliation center in Northern Ireland known for bringing together &#8220;the most bitter of enemies.&#8221; Citing the long-held rift between Catholics and Protestants during The Troubles and the progress factions have made since, Harris says the U.S. can take a page from the Corrymeela playbook for navigating a way forward and mending divisions in our nation.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, a graduate of Furman University and Emory University, is faculty director of\u00a0 Furman&#8217;s Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Harris, a Furman University mathematics professor, proffers a mathematical approach for solving problems of social and political unrest in the U.S. in an opinion piece he wrote for the [&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":[15,26,3,88,6,50,69,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","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","category-on-the-record","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","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=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/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=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}