{"id":2616,"date":"2013-05-08T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/08\/congrats-to-the-class-of-2013\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:41:47","slug":"congrats-to-the-class-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/congrats-to-the-class-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to the Class of 2013!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steady rain did little to dampen the spirits of Furman&#8217;s Class of 2013. Commencement exercises were scheduled for the Eugene Stone Soccer Stadium but were moved to Timmons Arena due to inclement weather. The university awarded 590 undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees and presented a number of its top academic honors during graduation exercises Saturday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador peace activist Sister Peggy O\u2019Neill delivered the commencement address and received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree. Mathematics major, Jack Farnsworth of Athens, Ga., was the student speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations graduates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Steady rain did little to dampen the spirits of Furman&#8217;s Class of 2013. Commencement exercises were scheduled for the Eugene Stone Soccer Stadium but were moved to Timmons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}