{"id":944,"date":"2021-11-19T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T00:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/professor-jones-smythe-publish-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:14:55","slug":"professor-jones-smythe-publish-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-jones-smythe-publish-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Averting ghosts, monsters and fiscal cliffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4990\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tom-smythe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4990\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4990 lazyload\" title=\"tom-smythe\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tom-smythe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 171px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 171\/248;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Smythe<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4991\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jason-jones.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4991 lazyload\" title=\"jason-jones\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jason-jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"252\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 169px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 169\/252;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed for <em>The Greenville News<\/em>, Furman professors Jason Jones (Economics) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) address the issue of America\u2019s looming fiscal cliff. They write that the nation\u2019s elected officials must, through leadership and compromise, first overcome the monster they have created and then confront the real monster lurking in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>, Furman professors Jason Jones (Economics) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) address the issue of America\u2019s looming fiscal cliff. They write that the nation\u2019s elected officials must, through leadership and compromise, first overcome the monster they have created and then confront the real monster lurking in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}