{"id":1358,"date":"2013-05-23T20:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/23\/looking-to-the-future\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:13:00","slug":"looking-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/looking-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dana-thorpe-greenvillenews1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6954 lazyload\" title=\"dana-thorpe-greenvillenews\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dana-thorpe-greenvillenews1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"304\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 281px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 281\/304;\" \/><\/a>Dana Thorpe, the new executive director of the Upcountry History Museum-Furman, comes to Greenville with 28 years of museum experience, from children\u2019s museums to historical societies. She was director of exhibits at Chicago\u2019s famous Shedd Aquarium for four years. But she\u2019s always had a passion for history, and so it seems fitting that she finally has made it to a history museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130522\/NEWS\/305220055\/New-director-looks-Upcountry-History-Museum-s-future?nclick_check=1\">Read The Greenville News article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Thorpe, the new executive director of the Upcountry History Museum-Furman, comes to Greenville with 28 years of museum experience, from children\u2019s museums to historical societies. She was director of exhibits at Chicago\u2019s famous Shedd Aquarium for four years. But she\u2019s always had a passion for history, and so it seems fitting that she finally has made it to a history museum. <em>The Greenville News<\/em> ran a profile of the new director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","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\/1358","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=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}