{"id":3671,"date":"2015-04-02T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/03\/reaching-out-to-grandmothers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:16:13","slug":"reaching-out-to-grandmothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/reaching-out-to-grandmothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching out to grandmothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sturgeon-woodlands.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17386 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sturgeon-woodlands.jpg\" alt=\"sturgeon-woodlands\" width=\"230\" height=\"253\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/253;\" \/><\/a>When Furman student Christina Sturgeon met Ginny Simmons in an elevator at The Woodlands, a nearby retirement community, you could say it was a grandmother-granddaughter connection at first sight. That was the start of their relationship as part of the Adopt-A-Grandparent\/Adopt-A-Grandchild program that Sturgeon started with residents at The Woodlands. Sturgeon, a freshman from Maryland, implemented the program as part of her involvement with the Heller Service Corps, a serving learning entity at Furman that connects students to volunteer opportunities with organizations throughout Greenville. Read more in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/greenville\/city-people\/2015\/04\/01\/furman-student-christina-sturgeon-launches-grandparent-program\/70559548\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Furman student Christina Sturgeon met Ginny Simmons in an elevator at The Woodlands, a nearby retirement community, you could say it was a grandmother-granddaughter connection at first sight. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,6,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}