{"id":37361,"date":"2025-04-11T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=37361"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:30:41","slug":"former-student-amy-grant-shares-property-dispute-in-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-student-amy-grant-shares-property-dispute-in-the-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former student, Amy Grant, shares property dispute in The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/amygrant.com\/\">Amy Grant<\/a> attended Furman University for a short time before launching a stellar career in the music business. She enrolled in 1978, the same year she performed in her first ticketed concert event. The six-time Grammy Award winner and &#8220;Queen of Christian Pop&#8221; now finds herself embroiled in a property dispute in Nashville. Her great-grandfather&#8217;s church was allegedly subjected to steeple-jacking, a takeover by external groups or organizations. Her story, written by <span class=\"viewsAuthors\" title=\"Cameron McWhirter\"><span class=\"authorName\">Cameron McWhirter, was published<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/after-a-church-takeover-in-nashville-a-christian-pop-star-fights-back\/ar-AA1CtWtF?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and is available through MSN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Amy Grant attended Furman briefly from 1978-1979 before launching a breakout career in Nashville. The six-time Grammy Award winner and &#8220;Queen of Christian Pop&#8221; is now fighting to keep her great-grandfather&#8217;s church, which was established in 1925.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1558],"tags":[3359,3361,3360],"class_list":["post-37361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-the-wall-street-journal","tag-christian-pop-artist","tag-property-dispute","tag-steeple-jacking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37361","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37375,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37361\/revisions\/37375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}