{"id":1165,"date":"2016-02-17T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/a-local-perspective-on-poverty\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:17:57","slug":"a-local-perspective-on-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-local-perspective-on-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"A local perspective on poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou&#8217;ve been given something very special. And if you don&#8217;t share it, you suck.\u201d Matt Reeves, co-founder and co-director of the Frazee Dream Center in Greenville, had this message to share with well over 100 Furman students yesterday at his talk on growing up poor in Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves, who began the community center with his wife Jenny in 2006 after years of just \u201cmaking money,\u201d spoke from the front of the Watkins Room stage without the need for a microphone. Today, the center operates a free preschool, an after school program and a summer program that serves under-resourced children in Greenville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edge.furman.edu\/#-\/a-local-perspective-on-proverty.html\">Read the complete story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou&#8217;ve been given something very special. And if you don&#8217;t share it,  you suck.\u201d Matt Reeves, co-founder and co-director of the Frazee Dream  Center in Greenville, had this message to share with well over 100  Furman students yesterday at his talk on growing up poor in Greenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}