{"id":1277,"date":"2016-02-22T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/furman-receives-mentions-in-netflix-series\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:01:25","slug":"furman-receives-mentions-in-netflix-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-receives-mentions-in-netflix-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman receives mentions in Netflix series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beau Willimon needed some color for his new Netflix series, \u201cHouse of Cards,\u201d so he decided to borrow from the story he knew best: his own. The Oscar-nominated writer and producer, legally named Pack Beauregard Willimon, has a legacy of family history in the Palmetto State, with ancestors who have called South Carolina home for centuries.\u00a0 His connection with Furman goes back to his great-grandmother, and then to his grandfather, who became a well-known attorney in his hometown of Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse of Cards,\u201d which premiered in February, tells a very different story of prominence, the story of a ruthless Congressman from Gaffney named Francis \u201cFrank\u201d Underwood, played by Academy-Award winning actor Kevin Spacey.<\/p>\n<p>The complete story is posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.furman.edu\/#-\/furman-receives-mention-in-netflix-series.html\">Edge, Furman&#8217;s digital magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beau Willimon needed some color for his new Netflix series, \u201cHouse of   Cards,\u201d so he decided to borrow from the story he knew best: his own.  The  Oscar-nominated writer and producer, legally named Pack Beauregard   Willimon, has a legacy of family history in the Palmetto State, with   ancestors who have called South Carolina home for centuries.\u00a0 His   connection with Furman goes back to his great-grandmother, and then to   his grandfather, who became a well-known attorney in his hometown of   Greenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","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\/1277","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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}