{"id":42708,"date":"2016-02-15T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=42708"},"modified":"2016-02-15T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:00:34","slug":"feb-19-great-decisions-the-kurds-melinda-mcclimans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/feb-19-great-decisions-the-kurds-melinda-mcclimans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 19&#8211;Great Decisions: \u2018The Kurds,\u2019 Melinda McClimans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda McClimans is the assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center at The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Decisions Discussion Program, a free community discussion series, is designed to encourage debate and discussion of the role of the United States in world affairs.<br \/>\n<strong>All Great Decisions discussions will be held at noon in the Fellowship Hall of William Street United Methodist Church, 28 W. William St.<\/strong> Attendees are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch. Complimentary coffee and tea will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Following each discussion, participants will have the option of completing a quick survey\u2014prepared by the Foreign Policy Association\u2014to add their opinions to thousands of others across the nation. The survey results will be made available to local media and sent to Washington, D.C., so that the community\u2019s voice is heard by federal decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: Corinne Lyman, professor emerita of politics and government, at <a href=\"mailto:cclyman@owu.edu\">cclyman@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda McClimans is the assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center at The Ohio State University. The Great Decisions Discussion Program, a free community discussion series, is designed to encourage debate and discussion of the role of the United States in world affairs. All Great Decisions discussions will be held at noon in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}