{"id":2055,"date":"2011-05-05T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:07","slug":"tony-kushner-denied-honorary-degree-via-mobylives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/05\/tony-kushner-denied-honorary-degree-via-mobylives\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Kushner denied honorary degree, via MOBYLIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=31579#\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TonyKushner-thumb-572xauto-38868.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sure to be a hugely contentious move, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner has been blocked from receiving an honorary degree from John Jay College by the trustees of CUNY which overseas John Jay after a single trustee, Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, claimed that Kushner had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153disparaged the State of Israel.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In an interview with the New York Times, Kushner said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he believed the trustees had slandered him and owed him an apology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and added that even if CUNY reverses its decision, he would not accept the honorary degree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=31579#\">MOBYLIVES \u00c2\u00bb Tony Kushner denied honorary degree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sure to be a hugely contentious move, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner has been blocked from receiving an honorary degree from John Jay College by the trustees of CUNY which overseas John Jay after a single trustee, Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, claimed that Kushner had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153disparaged the State of Israel.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In an interview with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/05\/tony-kushner-denied-honorary-degree-via-mobylives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tony Kushner denied honorary degree, via MOBYLIVES<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[399,400,401,402,398],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-cuny","tag-denied","tag-honorarydegree","tag-isreal","tag-tonykushner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10145,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/10145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}