{"id":1080,"date":"2013-02-19T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T01:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/19\/from-south-africa-to-chicagos-south-side\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:12:33","slug":"from-south-africa-to-chicagos-south-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/from-south-africa-to-chicagos-south-side\/","title":{"rendered":"From South Africa to Chicago&#8217;s South Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dustin-gourdon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5652 lazyload\" title=\"dustin-gourdon\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dustin-gourdon.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"349\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 257px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 257\/349;\" \/><\/a>Since 2009, Furman graduate Dustin Gourdin, a Ph.D. student in the University of Chicago\u2019s sociology department, has made three research trips to the African nation of Namibia. He\u2019s been studying the Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia, a nonprofit that provides disadvantaged local people with efficient transportation and job opportunities. He\u2019s wondering if a similar biking program might also work on the South Side of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Gourdin, a native of Greenville, graduated from Furman in 2010 with a degree in sociology.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newcity.com\/2013\/02\/19\/checkerboard-city-from-southern-africa-to-the-south-side\/\">Read more in NewCity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2009, Furman graduate Dustin Gourdin, a Ph.D. student in the University of Chicago\u2019s sociology department, has made three research trips to the African nation of Namibia. He\u2019s been studying the Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia, a nonprofit that provides disadvantaged local people with efficient transportation and job opportunities. He\u2019s wondering if a similar biking program might also work on the South Side of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}