{"id":3262,"date":"2014-10-30T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/2014\/10\/30\/the-journey-into-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:43:05","slug":"the-journey-into-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/the-journey-into-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"A circuitous journey into politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/madeline-rogero-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15098 lazyload\" alt=\"madeline-rogero-small\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/madeline-rogero-small.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"258\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/258;\" \/><\/a>Madeline Rogero took a circuitous path to her current position as mayor of Knoxville, Tenn. After graduating from Furman with a degree in political science in 1979, Rogero worked with C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez&#8217;s United Farm Workers, a labor union advocating for better wages and conditions for migrant farm workers. She then moved to Knoxville in 1980, where she earned a master\u2019s degree at the University of Tennessee in urban planning and started working with community-based organizations. Rogero talked about her journey into politics when she spoke recently to students in the &#8220;Women, Politics and the Law&#8221; class at UT.\u00a0 Read more in <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/utdailybeacon.com\/news\/2014\/oct\/28\/mayor-rogero-discusses-women-politics-her-journey-\/\">The Daily Beacon<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madeline Rogero took a circuitous path to her current position as mayor of Knoxville, Tenn. After graduating from Furman with a degree in political science in 1979, Rogero worked with C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez&#8217;s United Farm Workers, a labor union advocating for better wages and conditions for migrant farm workers. She then moved to Knoxville in 1980, where she earned a master\u2019s degree at the University of Tennessee in urban planning and started working with community-based organizations. Rogero talked about her journey into politics when she spoke recently to students in the &#8220;Women, Politics and the Law&#8221; class at UT.\u00a0 Read more in <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/utdailybeacon.com\/news\/2014\/oct\/28\/mayor-rogero-discusses-women-politics-her-journey-\/\">The Daily Beacon<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}