{"id":41137,"date":"2026-02-20T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41137"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:18:40","slug":"furmans-hometown-draws-praise-in-travel-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-hometown-draws-praise-in-travel-leisure\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s hometown draws praise in Travel + Leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone knows what most Greenvillians already know. Greenville, South Carolina, the hometown of Furman University, is likely the most underrated city in the South according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/guide-greenville-south-carolina-11906497\">Travel + Leisure<\/a> magazine. Travel writer Lauren Dana Ellman lays out the reasons why in her piece, &#8220;This Is the South\u2019s Most Underrated City\u2014With Waterfalls, Michelin-starred Restaurants, and Blue Ridge Mountain Views.&#8221; She describes Greenville&#8217;s food scene, shopping, breweries, Falls Park, the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail, nearby Travelers Rest and more. But she just might only be scratching the surface, says one reader in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel + Leisure magazine holds nothing back in its latest article about Greenville, South Carolina, and what makes Furman&#8217;s home so special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2070],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-travel-and-leisure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41137","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=41137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41714,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41137\/revisions\/41714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}