{"id":4093,"date":"2015-10-08T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/08\/adopting-a-grandparent-at-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:00:36","slug":"adopting-a-grandparent-at-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/adopting-a-grandparent-at-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopting a grandparent at Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/christina-sturgeon-usatoday-smaller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19400 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/christina-sturgeon-usatoday-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"christina-sturgeon-usatoday-smaller\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/230;\" \/><\/a>Adjusting to the lack of family connection in everyday life can be rough transition for many college students living away from home. To help students maintain that family connection while away at school, Furman sophomore Christina Sturgeon has created a program in which students can \u201cadopt\u201d a grandparent\u2014allowing student and grandparent to form true relationships. Sturgeon\u2019s efforts were highlighted in an article in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/college.usatoday.com\/2015\/10\/07\/college_students_are_adopting_grandparents\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjusting to the lack of family connection in everyday life can be rough transition for many college students living away from home. To help students maintain that family connection while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","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=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}