{"id":28933,"date":"2023-11-09T16:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=28933"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:22:26","slug":"mike-bothwell-returns-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mike-bothwell-returns-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Bothwell returns from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before war broke out between Hamas and Israel, Mike Bothwell &#8217;22, Furman University alumnus and Men&#8217;s Basketball standout, was set to play his first professional game as a member of Israeli pro team Elion Galil. He&#8217;s home safe now and sat down with Beth Hoole, sports director at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2023\/11\/03\/former-furman-basketball-player-mike-bothwell-returns-israel\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a>, to describe his scramble to leave the country, what he was feeling at the time, what&#8217;s next for his career, and to offer some advice for users of social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s Basketball standout Mike Bothwell describes his experience overseas when the war between Hamas and Israel broke out. He sat down with FOX Carolina&#8217;s Beth Hoole in a 12-minute interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,1569,6],"tags":[1036,2327,2328],"class_list":["post-28933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","tag-basketball","tag-hamas","tag-israel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28933","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=28933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}