{"id":29554,"date":"2024-01-07T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29554"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:06:21","slug":"education-alumna-makes-foray-into-business-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/education-alumna-makes-foray-into-business-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Education alumna makes foray into business ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University education alumna Rachel Sease &#8217;14 first met the proprietors of Blue Moon Books in Canton, North Carolina, when she taught the owners&#8217; son in her 4th grade class at Bethel Elementary. Years later, she left the teaching profession and took a position with a local Methodist congregation. A chance meeting with the owners of Blue Moon Books and Wall Street Books led to Sease&#8217;s employment with the same. Now, she is owner of Blue Moon Books in Canton, a small town west of Asheville. In a story appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/smokymountainnews.com\/news\/item\/36941-the-next-chapter-new-owner-at-blue-moon-books\">Smoky Mountain News<\/a>, Sease talks about the power of books to unite, build empathy and underscore our common humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sease parlays her love of books and literacy to bookstore ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":29560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,6,2467],"tags":[2464,2466,2465,166,959],"class_list":["post-29554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-smoky-mountain-news","tag-books","tag-bookstore","tag-business-ownership","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-local-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554","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=29554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}