{"id":1042,"date":"2016-02-22T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/saving-baby-jordan\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:00:59","slug":"saving-baby-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/saving-baby-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving baby Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy \u201902 and Shelvis Smith-Mather \u201902 were doing peace-building ministry work in South Sudan late last year when the couple\u2019s first child was born seven weeks early. In a rural and conflict-filled area with no modern medical facility, the Smiths and their colleagues worked frantically to have the child, Jordan, air-lifted from the area and ultimately back to the United States.\u00a0 A CNN interview, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/bestoftv\/2013\/02\/02\/nr-brooke-baby.cnn\">Saving Baby Jordan<\/a>,\u201d was aired Friday and recounts their experience. \u00a0Shelvis, a former Paladin football player, and Nancy, a past member of the women\u2019s soccer team, are now back in South Sudan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy \u201902 and Shelvis Smith-Mather \u201902 were doing peace-building ministry work in South Sudan late last year when the couple\u2019s first child was born seven weeks early. In a rural and conflict-filled area with no modern medical facility, the Smiths and their colleagues worked frantically to have the child, Jordan, air-lifted from the area and ultimately back to the United States.\u00a0 A CNN interview, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/bestoftv\/2013\/02\/02\/nr-brooke-baby.cnn\">Saving Baby Jordan<\/a>,\u201d was aired Friday and recounts their experience. \u00a0Shelvis, a former Paladin football player, and Nancy, a past member of the women\u2019s soccer team, are now back in South Sudan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-profiles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","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=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}