{"id":11397,"date":"2012-02-22T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2016-06-22T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:09:34","slug":"emile-lester-gives-opinion-in-fredericksburg-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2012\/02\/22\/emile-lester-gives-opinion-in-fredericksburg-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Emile Lester Gives Opinion in Fredericksburg Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2011\/10\/18\/emile-lester-to-present-at-washington-d-c-forum\/lester_emile_11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8868\" title=\"Lester_Emile_11\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/Lester_Emile_11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Assistant Professor of Political Science Emile Lester&#8217;s op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2012\/022012\/02122012\/677977\">&#8220;Mormonism and the Presidency: Don&#8217;t Worry&#8221;<\/a> appeared in The Free Lance-Star on Sunday, Feb. 12. Lester argues that Republican candidate Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormon faith need not be a point of contention for potential voters.<\/p>\n<p>Lester presented on panels at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renaissanceweekend.org\/site\/weekends\/detail.htm?id=22\">Renaissance Weekend<\/a> in Santa Monica, Calif., from Feb. 16 to 20. Renaissance Weekends are private, invitation-only gatherings of innovative leaders, and their families, from diverse fields. Participants are selected on the basis of their professional experience, personal profiles and likely contributions to the program&#8217;s breadth and depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2011\/10\/18\/emile-lester-to-present-at-washington-d-c-forum\/lester_emile_11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8868\" title=\"Lester_Emile_11\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/Lester_Emile_11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Assistant Professor of Political Science Emile Lester&#8217;s op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2012\/022012\/02122012\/677977\">&#8220;Mormonism and the Presidency: Don&#8217;t Worry&#8221;<\/a> appeared in The Free Lance-Star on Sunday, Feb. 12. Lester argues that Republican candidate Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormon faith need not be a point of contention for potential voters.<\/p>\n<p>Lester presented on panels at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renaissanceweekend.org\/site\/weekends\/detail.htm?id=22\">Renaissance Weekend<\/a> in Santa Monica, Calif., from Feb. 16 to 20. Renaissance Weekends are private, invitation-only gatherings of innovative leaders, and their families, from diverse fields. Participants are selected on the basis of their professional experience, personal profiles and likely contributions to the program&#8217;s breadth and depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":8868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,88],"tags":[9062,4001],"class_list":{"0":"post-11397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-professional-notes","9":"tag-department-of-political-science","10":"tag-elester","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}