{"id":3238,"date":"2014-10-23T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/23\/a-gap-year-before-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:43:41","slug":"a-gap-year-before-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-gap-year-before-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"A gap year before Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/gap-year-elizabeth-campbell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14955 lazyload\" alt=\"gap-year-elizabeth-campbell\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/gap-year-elizabeth-campbell.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"298\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 265px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 265\/298;\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s a familiar script that millions of students follow each year: Graduate high school and then immediately start college. But more and more students are embracing the \u201cgap year\u201d\u2014a year of volunteering and working before heading to campus. Elizabeth Campbell, a Furman freshman from Little Rock, Ark., did just that by deferring her admission to Furman for a year and moving to Seville, Spain, as part of a gap year program with the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Council on International Educational Exchange.\u00a0 Read more in <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.us\/lifestyle\/is-a-gap-year-after-high-school-for-you\/tmWnjt---49WtULQnaDprE\/\">Metro<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a familiar script that millions of students follow each year: Graduate high school and then immediately start college. But more and more students are embracing the \u201cgap year\u201d\u2014a year of volunteering and working before heading to campus. Elizabeth Campbell, a Furman freshman from Little Rock, Ark., did just that by deferring her admission to Furman for a year and moving to Seville, Spain, as part of a gap year program with the\u00a0Council on International Educational Exchange.\u00a0 Read more in\u00a0<b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.us\/lifestyle\/is-a-gap-year-after-high-school-for-you\/tmWnjt---49WtULQnaDprE\/\">Metro<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","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\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}