{"id":13466,"date":"2015-05-05T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:00:50","slug":"clemson-at-the-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/clemson-at-the-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson at the State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what has become an annual spring event, Clemson alumni and friends turned the State House orange on March 3 for \u201cClemson at the State House.\u201d Clemson\u2019s governmental affairs office held informational sessions about legislation that affects Clemson and how Clemson impacts the state. Both the Senate and the House proclaimed the day \u201cClemson Day at the State House.\u201d<br \/>\nSenators and representatives who are also Clemson alumni came forward for the proclamation, read by Senator Thomas Alexander \u201978 in the Senate and Representative Gary Clary \u201970 in the House.<br \/>\nLegislators joined alumni and friends for a festive evening gathering at Senate\u2019s End featuring remarks by President Jim Clements, coach Dabo Swinney and board chair David Wilkins.<br \/>\nFor information about how you can be a member of the Clemson Advocates Program, a grassroots volunteer advocacy group that seeks to engage, inform and encourage alumni and friends to communicate with members of the South Carolina General Assembly and other elected officials regarding issues of importance to Clemson and higher education, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/alumni\">clemson.edu\/alumni<\/a> and click on \u201cGet Involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has become an annual spring event, Clemson alumni and friends turned the State House orange on March 3 for \u201cClemson at the State House.\u201d Clemson\u2019s governmental affairs office held informational sessions about legislation that affects Clemson and how Clemson impacts the state. Both the Senate and the House proclaimed the day \u201cClemson Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[2382,2528,2573,2692],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","category-my-clemson","tag-rep-gary-clary","tag-sc-state-house","tag-senator-thomas-alexander","tag-spring-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Lifelong-Clemson-Statehouse_legisla.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}