{"id":4887,"date":"2026-09-23T15:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4887"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:20:47","slug":"a-conversation-with-ambassador-rahm-emanuel","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/event\/a-conversation-with-ambassador-rahm-emanuel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute at Furman University is hosting Rahm Emanuel\u2014former congressman, mayor of Chicago, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and President Obama\u2019s chief of staff\u2014for a timely conversation with Billy Webster, an Upstate business leader who served under Secretary Dick Riley and in the Clinton and Bush administrations, about the public policy issues shaping the national conversation ahead of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they will explore what voters are weighing, where common ground may still be possible, and what must be done across partisan lines to advance the public good.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the event and speakers can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/projects\/rahm-emanuel\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Free for Furman students, staff, and faculty. Free and open to the public, but <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.furman.edu\/view.php?id=1799755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registration is requested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note that there is a strict <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">NO BAG POLICY<\/span> for this event, and all attendees will need to pass through security.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute at Furman University is hosting Rahm Emanuel\u2014former congressman, mayor of Chicago, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and President Obama\u2019s chief of staff\u2014for a timely conversation with Billy Webster, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":4892,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[126],"class_list":["post-4887","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-clp","cat_clp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4887\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}