{"id":35670,"date":"2024-12-31T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T21:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35670"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:52:32","slug":"looking-back-at-furman-university-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/looking-back-at-furman-university-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at Furman University in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on an eventful year at Furman University reminds us that each moment is special, and each memory is worth cherishing. Throughout 2024 we celebrated graduations and homecomings while achieving lofty goals and setting new ones. We mourned together the loss of loved ones and responded to storms. We continued to build community, strengthened relationships and showed resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we reflect on 2024 and look ahead to the promise of a new year in our <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanuniversity.exposure.co\/2024\">Year in Review, 2024<\/a> edition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34487\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34487\" class=\"wp-image-34487 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Furman University Bell Tower at night with the Northern Lights aglow. \" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/2024-10-10-Northern-Lights-Pics-Edited-23-resized-1-1280x854.jpg 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/1067;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, can be seen (with the help of a camera) in the night sky above the Bell Tower on the evening of Thursday, October 10th, 2024. Photo by Owen Withycombe, Furman University.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From commencement to Hurricane Helene, 2024 was a busy year at Furman University. Take a trip back in time through photos in our Year in Review. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":36216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36217,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670\/revisions\/36217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}