{"id":3731,"date":"2015-04-27T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/27\/dins-day-april-29-2015\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:28:55","slug":"dins-day-april-29-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dins-day-april-29-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Dins Day &#8211; April 28, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will team up with alumni, parents and friends from around the world on Tuesday, April 28 to celebrate all things Furman.<\/p>\n<p>April 28 is the last day of classes for students and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.furman.edu\/dins-day\">Dins Day<\/a>\u201d will be a 24-hour celebration where all members of the Furman community are encouraged to wear purple, broadcast their Paladin Pride through social media (using #DinsDay) and help raise money to support the university\u2019s future students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to bring all of Furman together to celebrate our students on their last day of class and to increase annual philanthropic support of the University,\u201d said Justin Rourk \u201814, Associate Director of Donor Marketing and Annual Giving at Furman and coordinator of the event.\u00a0 \u201cIn addition to wearing purple, we are asking folks to amplify their Paladin Pride by saturating social media with posts about their favorite Furman experiences and memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDins Day\u201d is modeled after similar 24-hour spirit and fundraising blitzes taking place at liberal arts universities around the country. Furman is focusing on participation in the campaign and hopes to encourage financial gifts of all sizes through a partnership with generous donors who will provide challenge gift incentives.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the day\u2019s goals, incentives and festivities will be revealed on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.furman.edu\/dins-day\">Dins Day homepage<\/a><\/strong> at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will team up with alumni, parents and friends from around the world on Tuesday, April 28 to celebrate all things Furman. April 28 is the last day of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","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=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}