{"id":26736,"date":"2023-07-18T14:18:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26736"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:42:29","slug":"menzer-gives-back-to-veterans-with-the-gift-of-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/menzer-gives-back-to-veterans-with-the-gift-of-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Menzer gives back to veterans with the gift of swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Melinda Menzer, professor and chair of the Department of English, is spending her summer poolside. But not in the way that might first come to mind. Menzer is a volunteer coach for the <a href=\"https:\/\/upstateveteranswim.com\/\">Upstate Veteran Swim<\/a> program at the Greenville County Aquatic Complex. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2023\/07\/17\/new-program-teaches-veterans-how-swim\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a> interviewed Menzer during one of her coaching sessions. &#8220;When you work with someone in the water, when you are swimming together, when you&#8217;re talking about swimming, you really get to know people,&#8221; Menzer said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned so much from them. I really admire them coming to swim as adults &#8211; sometimes with some real impediments in their lives, and they&#8217;re here in the middle of the day making it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Carolina speaks with Melinda Menzer about her volunteer role with the Upstate Veteran Swim program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1569,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26736","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=26736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}