We talk about Furman University in myriad ways. We talk about the people (students, alumni, professors, staff, supporters and fans). We talk about the place (scenery, eateries, wildlife, recreation). We talk about the things that make Furman special.<\/p>\n
And with every conversation where Furman might come up, the list of material we recall gets longer and longer. Every class, every donation, every commitment to be a Paladin has a story and we have tried to pull just a few of those things into a list of greatness that speaks to the history and impact of the Purple and White.<\/p>\n
Two hundred things that scream (or whisper) Furman for you to read and \u2013 better yet \u2013 add to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When celebrating something as monumental as a bicentennial, it\u2019s important to go big when talking about it. For Furman University\u2019s 200th birthday, we are naming 200 things we love about the Purple and White. What will you add to the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":42204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3404,3529,1963,3526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicentennial","category-features-spring-2026","category-furman-magazine","category-spring-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41895"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42323,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895\/revisions\/42323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}