{"id":22022,"date":"2022-12-05T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22022"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:59:49","slug":"rudolphs-ruck-and-toy-drive-spreads-holiday-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rudolphs-ruck-and-toy-drive-spreads-holiday-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudolph’s Ruck and Toy Drive spreads holiday cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman University Army ROTC’s first annual Rudolph’s Ruck and Toy Drive garnered the attention of FOX Carolina<\/a> over the weekend. The ruck, aka a hike, march or fast walk, gets its name from the heavy ruck sacks cadets carry in military exercises. Furman senior Mary Spangler organized the event designed to spread holiday cheer and benefit patients at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital.<\/p>\n

“The best part of this <\/span>entire program that we’ve set up\u00a0<\/span>is just how much people want to <\/span>help us,” Spangler told a reporter. “It’s been very <\/span>heartwarming to see. I’ve had <\/span>lots of friends and family who\u00a0<\/span>can’t make it, but they still\u00a0<\/span>gave a toy to donate to the <\/span>children. Being able to<\/span>\u00a0spread that sense of\u00a0<\/span>holiday spirit, but also giving\u00a0<\/span>families an opportunity to be\u00a0<\/span>uplifted in the community – <\/span>that’s been very powerful to\u00a0<\/span>watch,” she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rainy conditions didn’t stop Furman Army ROTC cadets and the public from joining in the first annual Rudolph’s Ruck and Toy Drive.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furman University cadets hold their first annual Rudolph’s Ruck to benefit patients at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital. Despite rainy conditions, local TV station FOX Carolina captures the festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,44],"tags":[225,1731,1382],"class_list":["post-22022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-military-science-rotc","tag-community-service","tag-furman-army-rotc","tag-prisma-health-swamp-rabbit-trail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}