{"id":3041,"date":"2014-08-25T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/the-affair-continues\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:28:35","slug":"the-affair-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-affair-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The affair continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13742\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/graham-e1408994102232.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13742\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13742 lazyload\" alt=\"Graham Wright (center) with members of Opus Affair \" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/graham-e1408994102232.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/229;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graham Wright (center) with members of Opus Affair&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Graham Wright \u201900 originally moved to Boston to get a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then he decided he\u2019d rather be a singer, but that also wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, the Florence, S.C., native need a bit more of a challenge &#8211; like, say, revolutionizing the entire arts scene in Massachusetts, and now possibly the country.<\/p>\n<p>Wright founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opusaffair.org\/\">Opus Affair<\/a>, a non-profit \u201ccommunity of arts and friends\u201d in an attempt to bring young lovers of the arts together, and six years and thousands of members later the organization is bursting at the seams. Or was.<\/p>\n<p>Bursting moved to past tense when Wright made the decision to open a chapter in Miami, and now Opus is actively seeking expansion around the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/bostinno.streetwise.co\/\">BostInno<\/a>, a branch of <a href=\"http:\/\/streetwise.co\/\">Streetwise Media<\/a>, recently published a lengthy piece on Wright, which can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/bostinno.streetwise.co\/2014\/07\/10\/opus-affair-founder-graham-wright-interview\/?utm_content=6602343&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wright graduated from Furman with a degree in chemistry and also studied voice and trombone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Wright \u201900 originally moved to Boston to get a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then he decided he\u2019d rather be a singer, but that also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}