{"id":41953,"date":"2026-04-17T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41953"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:41:26","slug":"local-news-covers-tribute-to-unofficial-campus-mascot-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-news-covers-tribute-to-unofficial-campus-mascot-riley\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news covers tribute to &#8216;unofficial campus mascot,&#8217; Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41956\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41956\" class=\"wp-image-41956 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/04\/rileys-pet-rainbow-bridge-300.jpg\" alt=\"Students gather on a rainbow-colored bridge with paintbrushes to add details.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/04\/rileys-pet-rainbow-bridge-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/04\/rileys-pet-rainbow-bridge-300-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gathered April 12 to work on Riley&#8217;s Pet Rainbow Bridge. Photo: Dave Knox<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A group of Furman University students gathered to paint a bridge in honor of Furman&#8217;s &#8220;unofficial campus mascot&#8221; Riley, part golden retriever, part basset hound, who made nearly daily rounds on campus with her humans. Riley died last year, but Riley&#8217;s Pet Rainbow Bridge is a permanent fixture that pays tribute to her and lost pets everywhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furman-university-riley-rainbow-bridge-tribute\/71041879\">WYFF News 4<\/a> covered the story. See related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rileys-love\/\">stories<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rainbow-bridge\/\">Furman News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Knox padded out to Furman&#8217;s campus on a nearly daily basis with her humans. Riley&#8217;s Pet Rainbow Bridge pays tribute to her and lost pets everywhere. WYFF News 4 has the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953","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=41953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41961,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions\/41961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}