{"id":557,"date":"2024-01-21T21:35:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/?p=557"},"modified":"2024-01-21T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:36:06","slug":"welcome-to-intro-to-american-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/2024\/01\/21\/welcome-to-intro-to-american-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Intro to American Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Students:<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the a course that gives you the basics of United States government and how the parts come together. If you are present, read, take notes, participate, you should earn a grade worthy of your work and have a good time. Times are tough in the polity right now. We are an extremely divided nation ideologically, socioeconomically, and culturally. Is there a separation between church and state? Maybe on paper, but are the people capable of keeping religion out of politics?<\/p>\n<p>These questions and more are bound to come up during this semester. There are no absolutes in the world,\u00a0 but we can contemplate possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to a great semester,<\/p>\n<p>ProfSi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Students: Welcome to the a course that gives you the basics of United States government and how the parts come together. If you are present, read, take notes, participate, you should earn a grade worthy of your work and have a good time. Times are tough in the polity right now. We are an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/2024\/01\/21\/welcome-to-intro-to-american-government\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29595],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}