{"id":3675,"date":"2015-04-06T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/06\/a-survivor-of-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:16:05","slug":"a-survivor-of-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-survivor-of-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"A survivor of Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/kubakundimana-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17422 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/kubakundimana-small.jpg\" alt=\"kubakundimana-small\" width=\"185\" height=\"230\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 185px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 185\/230;\" \/><\/a>At the start of April each year, Jonathan Kubakundimana gets a familiar feeling of sadness in the pit of his stomach. The feeling has descended on the 21-year-old Furman student and Rwanda native each year since he was old enough to understand the genocide that took place in his country 21 years ago. Kubakundimana, a political science major at Furman, traveled to Rwanda in the fall, giving him a new perspective. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2015\/04\/02\/furman-student-rwandan-genocide-survivor-shares-experience\/70846936\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> wrote about Kubakundimana\u2019s experiences prior to a talk he was giving on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of April each year, Jonathan Kubakundimana gets a familiar feeling of sadness in the pit of his stomach. The feeling has descended on the 21-year-old Furman student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}