{"id":3855,"date":"2015-07-01T18:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/01\/building-a-better-greenville\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:24","slug":"building-a-better-greenville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/building-a-better-greenville\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a better Greenville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/don-gordon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18327 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/don-gordon.jpg\" alt=\"don-gordon\" width=\"200\" height=\"269\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/269;\" \/><\/a>Greenville, Furman\u2019s home, is a remarkable place, an increasingly beautiful \u201cdestination\u201d city. Nevertheless, like much of South Carolina, there are two Greenvilles. One is relatively prosperous and well-educated, able to take advantage of the beauty and resources of the city and state; the other relatively poor, out of the social and economic mainstream of the community and South Carolina. In an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/06\/27\/unseen-greenville-one-greenville\/29345913\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Don Gordon, director of the Riley Institute at Furman and a Professor of Political Science, writes about how the community can work together to build a more inclusive Greenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville, Furman\u2019s home, is a remarkable place, an increasingly beautiful \u201cdestination\u201d city. Nevertheless, like much of South Carolina, there are two Greenvilles. One is relatively prosperous and well-educated, able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","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\/3855","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=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}