{"id":5410,"date":"2009-03-06T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2009-03-06T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:23:20","slug":"ayers-colo-professor-was-fired-in-witch-hunt-posted-22h-23m-ago-comment-recommend-e-mail-save-print-subscribe-to-stories-like-this-o-yahoo-buzz-o-digg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/ayers-colo-professor-was-fired-in-witch-hunt-posted-22h-23m-ago-comment-recommend-e-mail-save-print-subscribe-to-stories-like-this-o-yahoo-buzz-o-digg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayers: Colo. professor was fired in &#8216;witch hunt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-03-05-ayers-colo-teacher_N.htm\">Ayers: Colo. professor was fired in &#8216;witch hunt&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: Ayers: Colo. professor was fired in &#8216;witch hunt&#8217; DENVER (AP) \u2014 William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/ayers-colo-professor-was-fired-in-witch-hunt-posted-22h-23m-ago-comment-recommend-e-mail-save-print-subscribe-to-stories-like-this-o-yahoo-buzz-o-digg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554],"tags":[1288925,2397,1288962,2609],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","tag-academic-freedom","tag-bill-ayers","tag-tenure-promotion","tag-ward-churchill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}