{"id":1160,"date":"2004-01-02T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2004\/01\/02\/city-to-hire-6-rejected-white-firefighters\/"},"modified":"2015-09-05T06:38:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T06:38:57","slug":"city-to-hire-6-rejected-white-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/02\/city-to-hire-6-rejected-white-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"City to hire 6 rejected white firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>City to hire 6 rejected white firefighters<\/h2>\n<h2>Hiring follows challenge to affirmative action plan<\/h2>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span>By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/span> <span class=\"date\">January 3, 2004<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Fire Department has agreed to hire six men who were passed over in favor of minority group members with lower test scores, marking the first time the city has voluntarily agreed to hire rejected white applicants since a federal appeals court declared its affirmative action plan unconstitutional last March.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2004\/01\/03\/city_to_hire_6_rejected_white_firefighters\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City to hire 6 rejected white firefighters Hiring follows challenge to affirmative action plan By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp; January 3, 2004 The Boston Fire Department has agreed to hire six men who&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[141],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-iI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}