{"id":1370,"date":"2016-02-22T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/furman-to-host-six-high-school-graduations-this-week\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:01:30","slug":"furman-to-host-six-high-school-graduations-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-host-six-high-school-graduations-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to host six high school graduations this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Shannice Singletary &#8217;14, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>It is shaping up to be a busy week at Furman, as Timmons Arena is to house a score of high school graduations this Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0 More than 3,000 community members are expected to be on campus for each graduation.<\/p>\n<p>University police are advising faculty, staff and students to avoid using the Timmons Gate during these ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Commencement ceremonies will be held for Travelers Rest High School (9 a.m.), Blue Ridge (2 p.m.) and Woodmont (7 p.m.). Thursday\u2019s schedule includes Wade Hampton ( 9 a.m.), \u00a0Berea (2 p.m.) and J.L. Mann (7 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>Doors will open an hour before each ceremony. The university community should wait until traffic is settled and parked before navigating around the Timmons area. In the event that the parking cannot be accommodated within the Timmons arena parking, it will be diverted to the Chapel lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shannice Singletary, 14, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>It is shaping up to be a busy week at Furman, as Timmons Arena is to  house a score of high school graduations this Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0  More than 3,000 community members are expected to be on campus for each  graduation. University police are advising faculty, staff and students to avoid using the Timmons Gate during these ceremonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}