{"id":1374,"date":"2013-06-11T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/11\/welcome-home-major-bell\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:51:48","slug":"welcome-home-major-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/welcome-home-major-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome home, Major Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7017\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nicole-bell-news.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7017\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7017 lazyload\" title=\"nicole-bell-news\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nicole-bell-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"269\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 309px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 309\/269;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Army Major Nicole Bell is reunited with her 3-year-old son Hayden Bell at GSP as she returned back to the upstate from a five-month deployment in Afghanistan. \/ PATRICK COLLARD\/Staff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Major Nicole Kuhne Bell of the U.S. Army has been in Afghanistan for the past seven months, but her deployment ended Friday and it was a grand surprise for her son, 3-year-old Hayden. Bell, who graduated from Furman in 2003 with a degree in political science, completed her third tour of duty overseas. She joined the Army as a member of Furman\u2019s ROTC program in 2000, and met her husband, Steven, during her first tour in Iraq. <em>The Greenville News<\/em> wrote about Bell\u2019s return home.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130601\/NEWS\/306010092\/Soldier-returns-home-surprises-son?nclick_check=1\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Nicole Kuhne Bell of the U.S. Army has been in Afghanistan for the past seven months, but her deployment ended Friday and it was a grand surprise for her son, 3-year-old Hayden. Bell, who graduated from Furman in 2003 with a degree in political science, completed her third tour of duty overseas. She joined the Army as a member of Furman\u2019s ROTC program in 2000, and met her husband, Steven, during her first tour in Iraq.\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>wrote about Bell\u2019s return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","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\/1374","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=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}