{"id":1210,"date":"2016-02-17T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/providing-a-helping-hand-on-mlk-day-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:16:14","slug":"providing-a-helping-hand-on-mlk-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/providing-a-helping-hand-on-mlk-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing a helping hand on MLK Day"},"content":{"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.<\/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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}