{"id":9685,"date":"2022-01-07T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/07\/a-year-later-what-implications-the-insurrection-could-have-on-american-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:45:17","slug":"a-year-later-what-implications-the-insurrection-could-have-on-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-year-later-what-implications-the-insurrection-could-have-on-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"A year later, what implications the insurrection could have on American politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/news\/a-year-later-what-implications-the-insurrection-could-have-on-american-politics\/article_25a50b42-6f71-11ec-9ccb-2be04dbea7e5.html\">FOX Carolina<\/a><\/strong> reporter Jarvis Robertson turned to Brent Nelsen for comment. Nelsen, a Furman University professor of politics and international affairs, said the insurrection &#8220;symbolizes the deep, deep divide that we\u2019re experiencing now in this country.&#8221; Pointing out other fractured moments in our nation&#8217;s history such as the Civil War, the civil rights era and Vietnam, Nelsen said the incident on Jan. 6 will impact how he teaches comparative politics.\u00a0\u201cI pay much more attention to democracy, how democracies rise and how democracies fall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, FOX Carolina reporter Jarvis Robertson turned to Brent Nelsen for comment. Nelsen, a Furman University professor of politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[1238,1239,1240,1241],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-election-2020","tag-jan-6","tag-storming-of-capitol","tag-u-s-capitol-insurrection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685","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=9685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}