{"id":1010,"date":"2013-01-22T16:25:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/providing-a-helping-hand-on-mlk-day\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:15:24","slug":"providing-a-helping-hand-on-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/providing-a-helping-hand-on-mlk-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing a helping hand on MLK Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5271\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mlk-day-1-13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5271 lazyload\" title=\"mlk-day-1-13\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mlk-day-1-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"313\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 303px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 303\/313;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.J. Calhoun helps create a garden in the New Washington Heights community as part of the Heller Service Corps and the Furman Interfraternity Council&#39;s observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 21, 2013. \/ Heidi Heilbrunn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Upstate community got some much needed attention this week thanks to a group of Furman students. In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, more than 130 students spruced up houses in the new Washington Heights community in Greenville County.<\/p>\n<p>The students worked several hours painting homes and cleaning up trash in the area. They also helped to set up a community garden. The neighborhood is part of the Poinsett Highway Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>All six of Furman\u2019s fraternities, as well as other members of the student body, were involved in the work.\u00a0 The event was sponsored by Furman\u2019s Heller Service Corps.<\/p>\n<p>See news coverage in:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130122\/NEWS\/301220018?source=nletter-top5\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.wspa.com\/news\/2013\/jan\/21\/furman-students-clean-up-community-on-mlk-day-ar-5415742\/\">WSPA-TV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Upstate community got some much needed attention this week thanks to a group of Furman students. In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, more than 130 students spruced up houses in the new Washington Heights community in Greenville County. The students worked several hours painting homes and cleaning up trash in the area. They also helped to set up a community garden in the neighborhood that is part of the Poinsett Highway Corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}