{"id":968,"date":"2016-02-11T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-nelsen-quoted-in-politico\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:29:14","slug":"professor-nelsen-quoted-in-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-nelsen-quoted-in-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Nelsen quoted in Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5101\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brent-nelsen-mug.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5101 lazyload\" title=\"brent-nelsen-mug\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brent-nelsen-mug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"243\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 158px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 158\/243;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Brent Nelsen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman political science professor Brent Nelsen was quoted in a <em>Politico<\/em> article about the chances that Rep. Tim Scott would be chosen to replace Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Senator who resigned to take a job running The Heritage Foundation.\u00a0 If so, Scott, a conservative black Republican, would be the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/12\/tim-scotts-bio-raises-senate-appeal-84719.html\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman political science professor Brent Nelsen was quoted in a\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em> article\u00a0about the chances that Rep. Tim Scott would be chosen to replace Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Senator who resigned to take a job running The Heritage Foundation. If so, Scott, a conservative black Republican, would be the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}