{"id":9401,"date":"2021-06-02T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/02\/uproar-over-statues-will-prompt-assumptions-about-the-south\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:41:16","slug":"uproar-over-statues-will-prompt-assumptions-about-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/uproar-over-statues-will-prompt-assumptions-about-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar over statues will prompt &#8216;assumptions&#8217; about the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Worth, professor of philosophy, and Sarah Archino, associate professor of art history, co-authored a letter to the editor in the Greenville News about controversy surrounding the &#8220;Wings of the City&#8221; statue installation in downtown Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;debate around these statues will undoubtedly receive widespread condemnation and further assumptions that the South is an intolerant cultural atmosphere, where artistic expression is narrowly defined and quickly censored,&#8221; the faculty members write.<\/p>\n<p>The letter is available to subscribers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/05\/22\/letter-uproar-over-sculpture-prompt-assumptions-south\/5180833001\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Worth, professor of philosophy, and Sarah Archino, associate professor of art history, co-authored a letter to the editor in the Greenville News about controversy surrounding the &#8220;Wings of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":9355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","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\/9401","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}