{"id":3848,"date":"2015-06-29T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/25\/shucker-graduate-in-the-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:44","slug":"shucker-graduate-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/shucker-graduate-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Shucker Graduate in the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Austin Charles<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> History and Asian Studies<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAustin Charles knew he wanted to be on the other side of an ocean someday. The question was, which one? A summer semester in Oxford, England, and an internship with the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, sealed the deal\u2014for the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed my time in Europe, but I realized my true interest in my heart was more in Asia,\u201d Charles says.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime practitioner of wing chun kung fu and yoga, Charles found himself more and more drawn to the culture\u2019s focus on introspection and \u201cmindfully moving through the world\u201d after school trips to China and Japan. Set to enter Georgia State University College of Law in the fall, Charles hopes to \u201cintegrate\u201d himself into law practice involving Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Charles History and Asian Studies Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Austin Charles knew he wanted to be on the other side of an ocean someday. The question was, which one? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-shucker-leadership-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}